Free trade or preferential trade areas (PTAs) allow importers who belong to the area to export to each other while …

successful export promotion between non-partners …

We document a novel stylized fact: Using data for several countries, we show that export activity is disproportionately … raises not only the aggregate productivity of the economy but also its aggregate export intensity, by allowing more firms to …

This paper investigates the effect of export shocks on innovation. On the one hand a positive shock increases market … export market. This in turn reduces profits and therefore innovation incentives particularly for firms with low productivity …. Overall the positive impact of the export shock on innovation is magnified for high productivity firms, whereas it may …

context of international trade. An influential hypothesis states that export pioneers are too few relative to social optimum …