Research Paper from the year 2010 in the subject Business economics - Trade and Distribution, course: Technical-paper/ Private research, language: English, abstract: This paper explores the extent to which products and product-markets diversifications contribute to export growth. It has used the bilateral trade at a very detailed level across countries, between 1996 and 2008. The results suggest that the export growth comes mainly from the intensive margin, i.e. product lines that had been already exported to the existing established trading partners. The decline in export, either due to the...

Research Paper from the year 2010 in the subject Economics - International Economic Relations, course: Private work - technical-paper, language: English, abstract: This document explores the cross-sectional differences in export/import across the trading partners for a large economy, in terms of intensive and extensive margin, and investigates the extent to which the contribution of the margins to the cross-sectional differences evolves by year and by group of economies. Results reveal that an economy that is twice larger exports two times more and most of the variations in its export occur...