and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm's innovation … export and innovation activities to become substitutes although they are generally natural complements. … and export activities, using unique firm survey data which provides direct measures for innovations and firm …

estimates for an extended production function framework reveal significant productivity effects of ICT in the German service … productivity differentials between firms. …

-selection in both export and import markets. Also, the productivity advantage of exporters reported in the literature may be … Belgium. Both imports and exports appear to be highly concentrated among few firms and seem to have become more so over time …. Focusing on manufacturing, we find that facts previously reported in the literature for exports only actually apply to imports …

investigate the relationship between exports and productivity. Our overall results are in line with the big picture that is by now … controlled for, and these exporter productivity premia tend to increase with the share of exports in total sales; there is strong … evidence in favour of self-selection of more productive firms into export markets, but nearly no evidence in favour of the …

's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey data which provides direct measures for innovations and firm … export and innovation activities to become substitutes although they are generally natural complements. … of income and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm …

number of national firm level studies on the innovation-productivity link have been conducted using new internationally …, innovation output and productivity, we find to a very large extent a common cross-country story for knowledge intensive …Recent studies have documented extensive heterogeneity in firm performance within countries, and innovation has been …

The missing effect of investments of firms in information and communication technologies on productivity is studied by …) has a stronger effect on the quality of services than on the productivity of the IT-using firm. IT investment seems to be … especially the most recent generation of IT as indicated by the number of PCs used is the source of productivity growth whereas …

The purpose of the paper is to find out whether linkages between productivity and innovation are different among … empirical analysis is based on productivity data from the Estonian Business Register and innovation data from the Estonian … in different sub-sectors different types of innovation are linked to productivity. Still, all linkages between innovation …

-industry innovation enhances domestic productivity, and domestic between industry innovations are productivity enhancing. However, foreign …-sourced between-industry innovation has a negative effect on domestic productivity. This highlights the dual aspect of patents as a …This paper examines Total Factor Productivity (TFP) and knowledge flows, using international patent data. The result is …

trade focusing solely on exports, whereby firm's learning effects are accounted in the firm of total factor productivity …, including data on innovation and trade, we find clear sequencing between imports, exports and innovation. The results suggest … processes induced by its import and export links with foreign markets. By using microdata for a large sample of Spanish firms …