The aim of this paper is to investigate the procompetitive effects of foreign trade on domestic firms' performance by considering the determinants of markup size using a dynamic panel of Slovenian manufacturing firms from 1995 to 2004. We examine how domestic and foreign firms' encounters affect...

<title>Abstract</title> This paper investigates the impact of firms’ growth rate on various financial and non‐financial performance ratios. The study tests the hypothesis that variations in growth rates across firms relate to differences in the values of ratios of profitability, liquidity, current assets,...

The recent financial and economic crisis has brought back the attention to studying the characteristics of surviving firms and those exiting the market. Among these characteristics the access to finance has received large attention, since the economic crisis decreased the availability of finance...