costs are used as an exogenous measure of import competition. The authors find a positive and robust effect of import … that increased import competition from less advanced economies is the major cause for the positive impact on quality …

, transparent, and participatory decisions on the application of the import restrictions they allow. The proposed special … agricultural safeguard expands by arithmetic formula the bounds within which a Member may impose a new import restriction. Analysis … useful, the special agricultural safeguard should do more than provide formulas for import restrictions. It should provide …

export diversification in a few countries, AGOA has fallen short of the potential impetus that preferences could otherwise …

-the-frontier innovations, inside-the-frontier innovations, and export booms. It extends the literature by increasing country coverage and the … performance. Furthermore, the search for export booms exhibits the least amount of sectoral concentration and path … modeling of these processes in theoretical work, particularly in the search for export booms, should be of a stochastic flavor …

thick institutional architecture is in reality quite thin. This is due to a particular type of an export-oriented model …

"There has been much concern about Africa's recent export performance. Even though tariff and non-tariff barriers to … a narrow range of primary commodities for export earnings. The author looks at factors that affect the export …, ownership, and education of the manager), policy-related variables also affect export performance. Manufacturing enterprises are …

"The empirical evidence on whether participation in export markets increases plant-level productivity has been …-by-doing, which suggests focusing on young plants and using measures of export experience rather than export participation. They find …

"Feenstra and Kee study the link between export product variety and country productivity based on data from 34 … industrial and developing countries, from 1982 to 1997. They measure export product variety by the share of U.S. imports on the … productivity gains. In addition, as suggested in the literature, export product variety depends on trade costs, such as tariffs …