Do trade reforms that significantly reduce import barriers lead to faster economic growth? In
the twenty-five years since Rodríguez and Rodrik's (2000) critical survey of empirical work …

In this paper, we present a model of the financial resource curse (ie, episodes of abundant
access to foreign capital coupled with weak productivity growth). We study a two‐sector (ie …

This paper investigates the effect of exporting on productivity, often referred to as “learning
by exporting”, in the context of global value chains (GVCs). Although the rise of GVCs raised …

This paper analyses the impact of internationalization on the innovation performance of 40
countries. Internationalization variables are represented by outward and inward foreign …

Scholars have extolled e-commerce as a pathway for sustaining firm operations in the
unique circumstances of COVID-19. To add crisis time evidence to the body of work, and …

Sažetak As a consequence of globalisation, economic growth and productivity have become
more sensitive to developments beyond national frontiers. This paper explores trade (import …

We study the response of a three-sector commodity-exporter small open economy to a
commodity price boom. When the economy has access to international borrowing and …

We present a new e-class command, acfest, that implements the method of Ackerberg,
Caves, and Frazer (2015, Econometrica 83: 2411–2451) to estimate production functions …

This paper analyses the links between R&D, innovation, productivity and exports for
European manufacturing firms between 2001 and 2014. In comparison with previous …

In this article, we thoroughly examine the learning-by-exporting (LBE) hypothesis for
Colombian manufacturing plants during 1981–91 and find significant evidence in its favor …