fixed costs reduce exports on the extensive margin, but can be offset by collateral held by exporting firms. The empirical … reducing exports …

"Feenstra and Kee study the link between export product variety and country productivity based on data from 34 … with within-country GDP maximization, as well as cross-country comparison. The authors construct country productivity based … on relative endowments and product variety. Increases in output product variety improve country productivity as the new …

Feenstra and Kee study the link between export product variety and country productivity based on data from 34 … with within-country GDP maximization, as well as cross-country comparison. The authors construct country productivity based … on relative endowments and product variety. Increases in output product variety improve country productivity as the new …

sectoral export variety on country productivity. The effects are estimated in a translog GDP function system based on data for … 34 countries from 1982 to 1997. Country productivity is constructed and export variety is shown to be significant …. Instruments such as tariffs, transport costs, and distance are shown to affect country productivity through export variety, and …

sectoral export variety on country productivity. The effects are estimated in a translog GDP function system based on data for … 34 countries from 1982 to 1997. Country productivity is constructed and export variety is shown to be significant …. Instruments such as tariffs, transport costs, and distance are shown to affect country productivity through export variety, and …