-best production. The longer time needed for export shipments induces a tighter credit constraint on exporters than on purely domestic …

production. The longer time needed for export shipments induces a tighter credit constraint on exporters than on purely domestic … firms. In our application to Chinese firms, we find that the credit constraint is more stringent as a firm's export share …

"Feenstra and Kee 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 … productivity gains. In addition, as suggested in the literature, export product variety depends on trade costs, such as tariffs …