We analyze the role of imitation and innovation in promoting technological progress in new members of European Union …: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. The two modes of technological development - innovation and imitation … - are distinguished from one another by identifying the dominant orientation of innovation efforts at the industry level …

This paper decomposes the growth of China’s export into three parts: growth in the extensive margin, increased quantity … and increased prices; we perform a series of empirical analyses using China’s export data at HS-6 digit to analyze the … characteristics of China’s export growth. From 1995 to 2010, China’s export growth was mainly driven by quantity growth with a …

This paper explores firms' export dynamics in emerging economies where local firms face stiff foreign competition, both … at home and abroad, and thus compelled to choose the level of quality in which to export. We develop and test a model of … vertical product differentiation where the link between export performance and product quality is central. The impact of other …

An astonishing 33% of all firm-product-destination export spells in Danish data turn out to be isolated single …-month one-off export events (observed once in a 49 month window). On average, for an export-active firm, such one-off exports … passive (i.e., buyer-side driven) one-off exporting in addition to the customary proactive export channel. This framework …

export market and vice versa takes place in a smooth manner. Areas of weak reaction of exports to changes in domestic demand … constraints as additional variables for export equations. We apply the exponential and logistic variant of a smooth transition … regression model and find that domestic demand developments and uncertainty are relevant for short-run export dynamics …

non-exporters. However, selecting high export potentials is difficult in practice. The contribution of this paper is to … characterize and identify these (high) export potentials. According to the Melitz (2003) model, potential exporters have to be … productive enough to overcome the entry costs of foreign markets. Once firms pass this productivity threshold, they all export …

export price data combined with data on 32 WTO (World Trade Organization) accessions by developing countries and hundreds of … increase in export prices of differentiated goods. For WTO, this effect is captured by the developing countries that were … particular, we find that PTAs with provisions on investments are associated with higher export prices. The results are consistent …

Whether a firm is able to attract foreign capital and whether it may participate at the export market depends on …

. The instrumented elasticity of export growth on the intensive margin with respect to the exporter's productivity growth is …