Given the importance of international trade and export performance in economic growth, this study attempts to examine the determinants of exports in SAARC Countries, using a pooled time-series and cross-section data over the period 2005-2018. The methodology employed is the export demand model...

With the advent of WTO, India entered into the era of trade reforms in 1991 and is moving gradually towards an open economy. It is widely believed that export and import growth is crucial in providing the impetus for economic growth in developing countries and imports provide the important...

With the advent of WTO, India entered into the era of trade reforms in 1991 and is moving gradually towards an open economy. It is widely believed that export and import growth is crucial in providing the impetus for economic growth in developing countries and imports provide the important...

Exporting is often touted as a way to increase economic growth. This paper examines whether exporting has played any role in increasing productivity growth in U.S. manufacturing. Contemporaneous levels of exports and productivity are indeed positively correlated across manufacturing industries....

Indonesian Abstract: Eksport negara-negara ASEAN-5 (Indonesia, Malaysia, Filipina, Singapura, dan Thailand) telah berkembang dengan amat pesat sejak beberapa dekad yang lalu. Namun pertumbuhan pesat eksport boleh menjejaskan kebajikan rakyat sesebuah negara jika ia diikuti dengan kemerosotan...

Export diversification, or the breadth of exports of an economy, is increasingly seen as a means of accelerating economic growth, mitigating instability due to price, demand, and exchange rate fluctuations, and stabilizing earnings from exports in the long run. As economies integrate into global...

World trade contracted sharply in late 2008 and early 2009 following the deepening of the financial crisis in September 2008. This paper discusses the main mechanisms behind the global downturn in trade and its impact on euro area exports and competitiveness. It finds that the euro area was hit...

This paper examines Pakistan's export performance during the last three decades and finds that it has been very poor in comparison with the performance of other countries in Asia. Although Pakistan is exporting to a diversified market base, the high level of product concentration and low...

Canadian exports have often disappointed since the Great Recession. The apparent disconnect between exports and the Bank of Canada fs current measure of foreign demand has created an impetus to search for an alternative. Based on a dynamic factor model (DFM) methodology, we use a broad range of...

This paper investigates whether technological innovation and exports affect the size and productivity of manufacturing firms in Brazil. In order to do so, we employ a new dataset and try to control for self-selection, a problem that is particularly important for the issue under examination....