This study uses newly available enterprise level data for firms from manufacturing industries in Germany to test for …, and exports. In line with hypotheses from theoretical model we find a positive link between a better credit rating score … of a firm and both the probability that the firm is an exporter and a higher share of exports in total sales. This link …

, exports may be lower than their efficient levels. For this reason,many countries support exporters by underwriting export … usesectoral data on export credit guarantees issued by the German government. We investigatewhether those guarantees indeed do … increase exports, and whether they remedy the exportrestrictingeffect of credit market imperfections both on the sectoral and …

constraints and the extensive margins of exports in Germany, one of the leading actors on the international market for goods. In … reports a negative impact of credit constraints on both the number of goods exported and the number of export destination …

constraints and the extensive margins of exports in Germany, one of the leading actors on the international market for goods. In … reports a negative impact of credit constraints on both the number of goods exported and the number of export destination …

constraints and the extensive margins of exports in Germany, one of the leading actors on the international market for goods. In … negative impact of credit constraints on both the number of goods exported and the number of export destination countries that …

In this paper we analyse the relationship between export and innovation activities of German service sector companies … Schumpeterian hypothesis of export activities being mainly driven by innovation activities. Factor endowment theories are only … partially supported. While human capital significantly improves export performance, labour costs hamper it only in selected …

activities - exports, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from … Germany, one of the leading actors on the world market for goods, that merge information from surveys performed by the …

the micro-structure of the recent export collapse in manufacturing industries in Germany during the crisis of 2008 …/2009. Almost all of the decline in exports was due to negative changes of exports in firms that continue to export (i.e. at the so …-called intensive margin) while the decrease of exports due to export stoppers (at the so-called extensive margin) was tiny. It is shown …

2011) in a model that explains the decision of heterogeneous firms to export and to engage in R&D. Using a non … firms with exports and R&D dominates that of exporters without R&D, which in turn dominates that of firms that neither … export nor engage in R&D. These results are in line with findings for firms from manufacturing industries. The model …

goods traded and various numbers of countries traded with from Germany, one of the leading actors on the world market for …