, I provide evidence that export restrictions on industrial raw materials upstream help promote manufacturing exports …This paper shows both theoretically and empirically how raw material rich countries use export restrictions upstream to … give manufacturing sectors downstream a competitive advantage. For young and relatively small industries this can be seen …

firms on their export sales during the Covid-19 pandemic. Research Design & Methods: In our study, we used a quantitative … research design. We conducted the survey on the sample of 161 manufacturing Polish exporting firms between April 21 and June 25 … degree of innovation, and the presence of a market diversification strategy significantly impacted export sales during the …

Using firm-level data from France, we document that the shift of economic activity from manufacturing to services over … manufacturing firms that increasingly locate in suburban and rural areas. Motivated by these findings, we estimate a structural … strengthened for services but weakened for manufacturing. This divergence is a key driver of the urban bias but it dampens …