While the role of exports in promoting growth in general, and productivity in particular, has
been investigated empirically using aggregate data for countries and industries for a long …

In this chapter we explore the popular but controversial idea that developing countries
benefit from abandoning policy neutrality vis-a-vis trade, FDI and resource allocation across …

This paper examines some of the recent literature on the estimation of production functions.
We focus on techniques suggested in two recent papers, Olley and Pakes (1996) and …

One of the main policy sources of trade–cost changes is the formation of an economic
integration agreement (EIA), which potentially affects an importing country's welfare. This …

An East Asian Renaissance, by a World Bank team led by Chief Economist for East Asia &
Pacific, Dr Homi Kharas and Economic Adviser, Dr Indermit Gill is the first comprehensive …

We hypothesize that multinational firms operating in emerging markets transfer technology
to local suppliers to increase their productivity and to lower input prices. To avoid hold-up by …

Exporting, as opposed to other modes of foreign market entry, is the quickest and easiest
way for firms to penetrate foreign markets and engage in internationalization (Johanson & …

We conduct a randomized experiment that generates exogenous variation in the access to
foreign markets for rug producers in Egypt. Combined with detailed survey data, we causally …

A rapidly expanding literature on firm heterogeneity and firm level globalisation strategies
has developed over the last decade. There are new insights on why some firms export and …

The firm level trade literature finds that exporters are exceptional performers for a wide
range of countries and measures. Paradoxically, the one documented exception is the …