This paper uses firm-level data for Mexican exporters to understand how firm-level export decisions shape a country …-series variation in the export supply decisions of firms. It is found that the cross-sectional variation of exports is mostly accounted … exporting firms that retain their export status from year to year. …

China's policy of encouraging export processing has been the topic of much discussion in the academic literature and … of the productivity variable. We also find that export processors gain more when entering the industrialised North rather … economically and statistically significant positive causal effects of entering into export processing and ordinary export markets …