This paper examines locational factors that increase the odds of a firm's entry into export markets and affect the … activity and that of export-oriented activity. It also focuses on the effect of the business environment and that of …' export behavior …

relationship between the export performance of firms and how their products relate to local comparative advantage. The key … products seems to yield export-enhancing spillovers. However, this positive effect of product relatedness on export performance …

In this paper, the effect of proximity to multinational exporters on the creation of new export linkages (the extensive … begin exporting new varieties to new markets is shown to respond positively to the export activity of neighboring foreign … sizable. The marginal impact of product-country-specific foreign export spillovers is five times as large as the effect of a …

margin (exporter size) contribute more to export growth than expansions along the extensive margin (number of exporters …-foundations of export growth, by providing new insights about exporter characteristics and dynamics …

exports from the top 1 percent of firms in a country -- export superstars. In contrast, the sectoral distribution of exports … across sectors is very similar across countries. This paper also finds that current export superstars typically entered the … export market relatively large, reached the top 1 percent after less than three years of exporting, and account for more than …

This paper examines locational factors that increase the odds of a firm's entry into export markets and affect the … activity and that of export-oriented activity. It also focuses on the effect of the business environment and that of …' export behavior …

export destinations and find that exporting to richer countries leads firms to charge more for outputs and pay higher prices …

exports may not be a random process. The results confirm the self-selection hypothesis and show that starting to export yields … productivity, which reinforces the importance of accounting for firm export status to study the evolution of productivity …

This paper examines whether export participation matters for job training. The paper draws on longitudinal worker … uses industry-specific exchange rate movements to generate exogenous variation in export status at the firm-level. The … findings indicate that export participation tends to increase the share of workers who receive technical upgrading. The results …

their terms of trade, export revenues, and real incomes. The general case for this export pessimism has lost much of its … force, but remains very much alive for some specific countries and commodities - particularly the export of cocoa, coffee … incomes and tax and export revenues compare under existing taxes. It analyzes the impact of export expansion on real income …