significant increase in services imports (2002-2012). We use world service export supply shocks, which we allocate to firms based …

results show that having a business plan, access to finance and technology, owner education, export orientation, business …

customers. To understand firms’ export strategies, we analyse new trade flows – new seller-buyer-product combinations – of …-wide (introducing new products) and going-deep (reaching new buyers for existing products), we find that the dominant margin of export … rate shock and show that going-deep is more pronounced as an export strategy when a firm’s effective market size is …

with their parents' export products, at entry spinoffs access 51 percent more parent markets than exporting firms in the …

between export and FDI. The model combines the proximity-concentration trade-off framework with the real option methodology … intertemporal selection effects. -- export ; FDI ; uncertain productivity growth ; real option approach …

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 …

excessive (greater than first-best) R&D investment and output growth. -- legal system ; commitment ; flexibility ; innovation …

flexible technology allowing for such option. Investment is irreversible and flexibility is costly. The problem is solved …. -- factor proportions ; technological choice ; flexibility ; real options ; alternative energy source …

flexibility? to identify the optimal means of innovating to meet the given environmental objective. Thus, it can be argued that … database of patent applications from a cross-section of countries evidence is provided for the positive effect of flexibility …