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Export Superstars

This paper shows that the top 1 percent of exporters critically shape trade patterns, using firm-level data from 32 countries. In particular, variation in average firm size (the intensive margin) explains over two thirds of the variation in the sec...

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Main Authors: Freund, Caroline, Pierola, Martha Denisse
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2013
Subjects:
ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE
APPAREL
COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE
CUSTOMS
CUSTOMS AUTHORITIES
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
DEVELOPMENT POLICY
DIVERSIFICATION
DOMESTIC MARKET
DOMESTIC PRODUCTION
DOMESTIC SALES
ECONOMIC RESEARCH
ECONOMIC STATISTICS
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
EXPORT DIVERSIFICATION
EXPORT DYNAMICS
EXPORT GROWTH
EXPORT MARKET
EXPORT MARKETS
EXPORT PATTERNS
EXPORT SECTOR
EXPORT SECTORS
EXPORT SHARE
EXPORT SHARES
EXPORT STRUCTURES
EXPORT VOLUMES
EXPORTERS
EXPORTS
FIRM SIZE
FIRMS
FIXED COSTS
GDP
GDP PER CAPITA
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD
INTERNATIONAL TRADE
MANUFACTURERS
MARGINAL FIRMS
MULTINATIONAL
MULTINATIONAL FIRMS
MULTINATIONALS
NATURAL RESOURCES
OLIGOPOLY
OWNERSHIP STRUCTURE
PRIVATE COMPANY
PRODUCTION COSTS
RETURNS TO SCALE
SMALL FIRMS
SPECIALIZATION
TRADE COSTS
TRADE PATTERNS
TRADE POLICY
TRADE VOLUMES
VOLUME OF TRADE
WAGES
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/10/16816769/export-superstars
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/12069

Internet

http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/10/16816769/export-superstars
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/12069

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