The use of advanced technologies like artificial intelligence, robotics, or smart devices will go hand in hand with higher productivity, higher product quality, and lower trade costs. Therefore, it can be expected to be positively related to export activities. This paper uses firm level data for...

Using world commodity prices as an instrument, this paper proposes a novel method for decomposing channels of international risk sharing for commodity-exporting countries. The method identifies the commodity “sector”' as the projection of gross national product growth on commodity-price...

Early adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) reshaped how firms responded to market dynamics by enhancing data collection and analysis. Linking China's universe of customs shipments to millions of online job ads, we tracked AI hiring in sales, marketing, and analytics to build a firm-level...

The use of advanced technologies like artificial intelligence, robotics, or smart devices will go hand in hand with higher productivity, higher product quality, and lower trade costs. Therefore, it can be expected to be positively related to export activities. This paper uses firm level data for...

In a paper published in the Journal of Information Economics in 2024 I reported evidence that firms which use cloud computing do more often export, do more often export to various destinations all over the world, and do export to more different destinations. Results are based on data for...

This short note looks at the link between churning of exporters and dynamics of exports using data from the World Bank Exporter Dynamics Database from 69 countries primarily for the period between 2003 and 2010. In line with Schumpetarian theory of creative destruction we report that a higher...

This study utilizes the gravity model of international trade to analyze the effects of logistics performance (LPI) and green logistics performance (GLPI) on intra-regional export value among the 10 ASEAN member states during the 2010-2018 period. The findings reveal that: (i) The LPI of both...

This short note looks at the link between churning of exporters and dynamics of exports using data from the World Bank Exporter Dynamics Database from 69 countries primarily for the period between 2003 and 2010. In line with Schumpetarian theory of creative destruction we report that a higher...

This (very short) note introduces nep-iaf, a new e-mail service that helps researchers interested in international activities of firms to stay up to date with newly published working papers on firms’ international activities, e.g. export, import, foreign direct investment, offshoring,...

This study explores the relationship between multidimensional technology adoption and utilization with exports, focusing on textile and clothing firms in Indonesia. Grounded by self-selection and learning-by-exporting hypotheses, this study uses binomial probit and ordinary least squares (OLS)...

The termination of an exporter-importer (E-I) relationship could challenge the company's export process. What are the consequences on the company's export performance in the foreign country? What role does export experience play in this relationship? The paper explores the overlooked phenomenon...

Die österreichische Außenwirtschaft ist ein zentraler Motor des wirtschaftlichen Wachstums. Dieser Motor ist jedoch zunehmend ins Stottern geraten. Gründe dafür sind - neben innerstaatlichen Faktoren - wachsende geopolitische Unsicherheiten und Krisen, die schwächelnde deutsche...

This paper incorporates non-homothetic preferences and the product quality ladder assumption into a model of heterogeneous multi-product firms from the perspective of scale and quality to investigate the differential impact of domestic demand upgrading on firm resource reallocation and export...

In 2021 and particularly in 2022, gas prices rose sharply in Europe due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the previous throttling of Russian gas supply to Western Europe. Because of the merit-order system, this also led to an increase in electricity prices in Austria and in many other EU...

Since the start of economic liberalization, Asia and Africa have been expanding new corridors for South-South trade. India and Ethiopia are the two fastest-growing economies in this region, and the trade between these countries involves many manufacturing goods. This research empirically...

This study is devoted to investigating the asymmetric effects of geopolitical risks (GPRs) on Vietnam' exports during the period from January 2010 to December 2024. Using a nonlinear Autoregressive Distributed Lag (NARDL) bounds testing model, the study documented that in the short-run, GPRs...

This paper examines the roles of tariff and non-tariff measures in China's meteoric rise as the world's leading green product supplier. Evidence from customs transaction data from 2000 to 2016 shows that processing firms propelled the export surge, utilizing the expanding domestic material...

We examine the effects of adopting automation technologies on the export performance of French manufacturing firms during the 2002–2019 period. Adoption is identified through imports of automation-related capital goods, and its effects are estimated by means of a staggered...

This paper explores how firm-specific trade opportunities affect R&D investments and innovative activities. To construct trade opportunities that are exogenous to firm-level decisions, I use the variation in export and import patterns and exploit the fact that firms differ in their...

The global trading system is undergoing profound changes, and current developments in the United States and China will have significant implications for the European economy. Both countries were at the heart of globalisation but are now becoming less dynamic export markets. Chinese economic...