line, then, is that R&D activity does matter for success of German business services firms on export markets – but not much. …

-selection of innovative services firms on export markets. We have to admit, however, that the panel is too short, and that the … number of firms that start to export and start to perform R&D during the period under investigation is too small, for any …

firms that start or stop to export over the period under investigation, and that are not representative for the bulk of … firms that either export or not. …

negative impact of credit constraints on both the number of goods exported and the number of export destination countries that …

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. …

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 …

Import Recovery in 2009/2010. The empirical investigation finds that firms that imported in both 2009 and 2010 are much more … important for the import dynamics than import starters and import stoppers. Firms that increased their imports (and that were … the drivers of the import boom) imported on average more goods and from more countries of origin in 2009 than firms that …

constraints and export activities using data at the level of the firm. This paper presents a tabular survey of 32 empirical …: Financial constraints are important for the export decisions of firms – exporting firms are less financially constrained than …