purposes. The results show that firms that export both goods and services throughout the sample have higher productivity … goods exporters to goods and services exporters, which exhibit higher productivity than firms that export only goods or … observe no effect of any of export status of firms considered in this paper on their productivity growth. …

-selection hypothesis and show that starting to export yields an extra TFP growth that emerges since a firm's first year of exporting but … productivity, which reinforces the importance of accounting for firm export status to study the evolution of productivity. …

This paper presents an analysis of the crucial relationship between innovation, productivity, and export in Small and … Medium Enterprises (SMEs). The primary aims of this study are to evaluate the role of innovation in the premium export and … test the hypothesis of firm conscious self-selection on willingness to export. To this end, the authors used their database …

' decision to export. The model sheds light on the affirmations of the founding models of the 'new theory of international trade …', in particular the role of productivity and sunk costs of exporting in the firms’ export decision. It also takes into …

he export participation of SMEs in the Swedish computer and business service industries has increased rapidly over the … last decade. Despite this, export participation rates-including those of micro enterprises-remained low at 13 per cent in … of micro enterprises, this study investigates the determinants of the export participation of Swedish SMEs in the …