The China-Raw materials dispute recently arbitrated by the WTO opposed China as defendant to the US and the EU as claimants, on the somewhat unusual issue of export restrictions. For the claimants, Chinese export restrictions on various raw materials of which the country is a major producer...

Is corporate financial structure a determinant of non-price competitiveness in export mar- kets? In this paper we provide a positive answer to this question by finding that among illiquid exporters leverage is negatively correlated with the quality of their exported goods.This result is obtained...

This paper contributes to the literature explaining firm-level heterogeneity in the extensive margin of trade, defined as the number of products exported by each firm. We develop a dynamic model where firms must invest in R&D to maintain and increase their portfolio of goods: the process of...