information spillovers across markets on the export patterns of four developing countries (Egypt, Korea, Malaysia and Tunisia). A …

entry and the following year. This paper examines the implications of partial year effects using Peruvian export data. The … literatures on firm export dynamics. Correcting the partial year effect eliminates unusually high growth rates in the first year … of exporting, raises initial export levels, and shifts 10 percent of market entrants from below to above the median size …

level of income and export intensity. Specifically, the paper investigates theoretically and empirically how financial … constraints affect a firm's innovation and export activities. Theoretical predictions are tested using unique firm survey data … constraints strongly adversely affect the ability of domestically owned firms to innovate and to export and hence to catch up to …

In this paper we analyse the relationship between gravity variables and f.o.b. export unit values using Hungarian firm …-product-destination data. By taking firm-product level selection into account we show that export unit values increase with distance even for … relationship between unit values and market size. We propose two possible explanations: first, firms may export different quality …

adopt a model of firm heterogeneity and export participation which we estimate to match moments of the French data using the …