This paper formulates a model of optimal export decision of private firms and then empirically studies the effect of … firm size, import of raw materials and capital goods, competitiveness (measured in terms of price-cost-margin (PCM)), and … productivity growth on export performance of Indian private firms during the period 1975-1986. The paper finds that while …

Analyses of Colombian data have generally failed to confirm the hypothesis of export-led growth. In this paper, we … generate several measures of export diversification and structural change in exports, and argue that these measures are useful … in assessing growth externalities generated by the export sector. In a simultaneous-equations framework, increases in the …

products, and show that the proximity-concentration trade-off can generate FDI-export coexistence …

effects ofcreativity and its components on export performance. A basic framework foranalysis is proposed and consists of three …

export. What is the exporting behavior of foreign affiliates? In this paper, using data from China, we find that among … foreign affiliates exporters are less productive than non-exporters (export discount). We then offer a theoretical explanation …

countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Inland transport costs and time delays are a much larger share of total export costs and …. An analysis of unit costs and costs of time for land transport of particular export commodities reveals a pattern of high … uncertainty, infrastructure quality, and other features of logistics systems and export markets are highly non-linear, and can be …

' export decisions. Drawn from the World Bank Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) Survey database, we find that different types … are positively correlated not only with firms' average export volume across markets and products but also their export … scope, measured by the number of export markets and products. A similar relationship is found between labeling requirements …