The impact of international trade on firm productivity is tested by accounting for firms' import as well as export … improvements are found to be highly contingent on export status, with import status being unimportant. The key finding of the paper … is that the gains from trade, for Ireland at least, appear to lie on the export side. Interestingly, quitting trade leads …

of final destination. Germany plays the increasing role in CEE export redirection (and vice versa) to extra …The goal of the paper is to decompose gross exports/imports to/from Germany for seven selected economies in Central and … analysis shows the deep integration of CEE into "Factory Germany" as well as also the overestimated role of Germany as a market …

, manufacturing in CEE countries does not serve a 'carrier function' for services to contribute to a country's export performance. …

-diversified export products. In terms of geographical diversification, Poland exploits approximately one-fifth of its theoretical overall … the period analyzed. The Polish export portfolio, in terms of the variety of both its products and receiving markets, is …

firms depending on their export status and the gender of their owners. We find that female-owned exporters have roughly half …, we also find evidence consistent with selection into exporting where female-owned firms face relatively higher export …

This paper addresses the lack of connection between theory and empirics in most export diversification - economic … development studies. We provide a Ricardian-based theoretical explanation of countries' relative export variety as a function of … the level of technology and country size assessed with respect to the rest of the world. Relative export diversification …

's probability of exporting, export intensity, and value of exports. At the extensive margin, we find that SEZ firms in open … economies are 25% more likely to export than their non-SEZ counterparts, with a large negative effect in closed economies. At …