enterprises explains India's improved export performance during the postreform period. The recent literature stresses that firm … heterogeneity gives some firms an edge over others to self-select into export markets. Apart from ownership, this paper considers … firm heterogeneity and other firm-specific factors of export performance. Estimation results show that the impact of …

labour turnover literature. Overall export growth rates in the manufacturing sector vary widely, and we focus particularly on …The aim of this paper is to explore how a recent methodology developed to look at export dynamics in a region in a … large economy can be extended to look at export dynamics in a small open economy, where local market size means that …

This paper empirically examines what role of existing exporters play in the discovery of new export products and … whether there are evidence of spillovers from export discovery. We find that existing exporters are more likely to discover … new export products than non-exporters. We also find evidence of export discovery spillovers; export discovery of a …

manufacturing exports in particular. In this paper, we draw on micro-evidence of manufacturing firms in five African countries …-selection based on efficiency and firm size as determinants of export participation. We show that firm size is a robust determinant of … the decision to export. It is not a proxy for efficiency, for capital intensity, for sector or for time …