, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom) to investigate the links between firm age and the participation of the firms in export …, the share of exports in total sales, the number of countries exported to, and the participation in import. The big picture … revealed is in line with the theoretical considerations. Older firms tend to be more often exporters and importers, they export …

evidence in favour of self-selection of more productive firms into export markets, but nearly no evidence in favour of the …

total sales, or export participation over time, or the number of goods exported, or the number of countries exported to …. This paper documents that low-productive exporters are competitive because they export high-quality goods. The quality of …

-productivity exporters are not marginal exporters defined according to the share of exports in total sales, or export participation over time …

the micro-structure of the recent export recovery in 2010 in manufacturing industries in Germany after the great recession … export (i.e. at the so-called intensive margin) while the increase of exports due to export starters (at the so … export recovery. These findings are remarkably symmetric to the results from an analysis of the great export collapse of 2008/09. …

considerations. Older firms are more often exporters, export more and more different goods to more different destination countries …, and export to more distant destination markets. …

-quality goods tend to use high-quality inputs, while the firm size is not related at all to export quality. …

investigate for the first time the links between export diversification over destination countries and goods on the one hand and … diversified export sales over goods and in firms with more diversified export sales over destination countries. …