The authors study the link between export product variety and country productivity based on data from 34 industrial and … developing countries, from 1982 to 1997. They measure export product variety by the share of U.S. imports on the set of goods … suggested in the literature, export product variety depends on trade costs, such as tariffs, distance, and transport costs. Such …

tax return data from South Africa to demonstrate that corporate taxes influence firms' export performance and their …

-side constraints to export performance at the firm level in Ecuador. To correct for the non-random truncation problems, they use the … Heckman selection model to estimate the probability of exporting (export propensity) and the share of total sales that are … exported (export intensity) by Ecuadorian firms. They develop a baseline model with 12 independent variables divided into three …

authors find that the current export structure of Argentina is not conducive to future growth because it is dominated by low …, including partly processed meat, fish and grains. If economic growth is to be fostered by developing new export products and by …

This paper investigates the extent of China's export boom in machinery and analyzes trade in components and finished …

; there is strong evidence in favour of self-selection of more productive firms into export markets, but nearly no evidence in …

particular, there has been considerable discussion of whether standards and regulations affect trade costs and export prospects … for developing countries. In this paper the authors examine how meeting foreign standards affects firms' export … performance, reflected in export propensity and market diversification. The analysis draws on the World Bank Technical Barriers to …