My new findings from firm-level surveys show that both a firm’s probability of exporting and a firm’s exporting volume increase with the firm’s age after controlling productivity as well as that both probability of and quantity of export are higher among financially non-constrained firms, after controlling age and productivity. This paper develops a model with credit-constrained, heterogeneous ...

In this paper I identify new goods in U.S. imports data at the product levels of 7-digit TSUSA or 10-digit HS codes. I show that consistent with product cycles, the North’s new goods exports relative to old goods exports grow faster than the South’s, and then the South catches up with the North. The catch-up takes 13 ~ 18 years and happens in the 1990s, an age of globalization and outsourcing. ...

The Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) was established to promote the exports of low-income countries to industrialized countries in order to support their economic growth and development. However, the design of these schemes is rather complex and the e¤ects of GSP have been found to be controversial. While previous studies solely analyzed preferential agreements of individual granting cou...

Information, Corruption, and Measures for the Promotion of Manufactured Exports Glenn P. Jenkins and Chun-Yan Kuo There has been a growing emphasis in many developing countries on exportled growth policies that attract both domestic and foreign investment into activities for the expansion of manufacturing exports. Often the actual outcome of the policies has been very different than the intenti...

nowadays, countries realize that without having knowledge and technology, they may not export advantaged goods to the global market. generally, technology and knowledge accumulation play vital role for reaching high economic growth rate and economic development. the statistical reports show that iran has not been successful in the high-tech export area; base on those reports, iran’s high-tech e...

This paper applies several of the product space tools of Hausmann, Klinger, and Hidalgo to explain and predict the pattern of Brazil’s exports. First, we calculate an annual measure of distance between moderately disaggregated products. Then we fit an econometric model that predicts the next products in which each country will gain comparative advantage, based on this distance measure, domestic...

This paper estimates the effects of China’s exchange rate changes on exports of competitor countries in third markets. We derive an econometric specification which includes product and destination-specific indices of competition between China and its developing country competitors. Our empirical strategy allows us to exploit the variation--afforded by disaggregated trade data--across exporters,...

In order to understand various aspects of student understanding of atomic orbitals, we have built a 3-D virtual environment – “Virtual Water” – to support the learning of some concepts of Physics and Chemistry at the final high school and first-year university levels. It is centered in the microscopic structure of water and explores, among others, concepts related to atomic and molecular orbita...