estimates connecting country-industry productivity and exports, and the study exploits heterogeneous technology diffusion from … advantages, and it establishes a connection of migration to home country exports beyond bilateral networks …

comparative advantage inform the relationship between endowments in domestic factors of production and exports. It proposes that …

Using data on net exports and factor endowments for more than 100 countries, this paper studies the relationship …

a high ratio of bank credit over the GDP. Banks thus push firms away from exports that are facing an uphill battle on a …

Tajikistan to diversify its exports, appears to be agro-industry and, to a lesser extent, clothing. For both sectors, the main … export market is likely to be the regional market. Tajikistan also has a comparative advantage in labor exports, which it has … successfully exploited since the mid-2000s. To harness the full potential for labor exports will require improving the skills base …

sector distribution of exports across countries, the remaining share is explained by variation in the number of firms (the … exports from the top 1 percent of firms in a country -- export superstars. In contrast, the sectoral distribution of exports … half of a country's total exports, export growth and diversification. The results underscore the role of individual firms …