aggregate export and FDI sales relative to the domestic and foreign market sizes. In particular, it is shown that firm level … heterogeneity is an important determinant of relative export and FDI flows. We use the model to derive testable empirical … predictions on the relative aggregate export and FDI sales in a given country for a given sector based both on relative costs and …

-in-differences estimation to examine whether a country’s accession to the WTO significantly increases firms’ export intensity. In addition, we … experience significantly higher growth in export intensity when their managers have positive perceptions about domestic … institutions. In contrast, accession to the WTO does not significantly increase firms’ export intensity whose managers perceive …

Export-platform foreign direct investment in which the affiliate's output is (largely) sold in third markets rather …, high-cost economies and a small low-cost economy. Pure export-platform production arises in a symmetric case, when a firm … its low-wage partner in order to serve their joint free-trade area and to export to the outside high-cost country …

The paper examines the Brazilian core coffee export economy from the 1880s to 1930. Analysis is centered on coffee … golden age of the Brazilian export economy. The paper also looks at commodity exports outside the core: rubber, sugar, and … cotton. A section on the export economy, 1930-1960 is included as a coda …

In 2010, Vietnam achieved a total import-export turnover of US $ 154 billion, but by 2019, that number increased more … impact of exports on Vietnam's economic growth in this period and pointed out some problems for export activities of Vietnam …. Besides, the research team also considers the opportunities and challenges for export activities in the context of the COVID …

Using detailed customs data on the universe of import and export transactions from Pakistan, we attempt to empirically … relate the variation in unit values of narrowly defined products to export market attributes, such as, market size and … spatial patterns of export prices. Furthermore, we obtain compelling evidence in favour of asymmetric effects of distance and …