in manufacturing firms from East Germany and West Germany. It documents that these margins do still differ in 2010, 20 … years after the re-unification of Germany. West German firms outperform East German firms at all four margins of exports … - they have a larger propensity to export, export a larger share of total sales, export more goods and export to a larger …

in Germany. This paper uses enterprise level panel data for France, Germany and the United Kingdom from 2003 to 2008 to … 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. …

labour costs (-1.4%/year) and less favourable exchange rates (-2.0%/year). By far the most important determinant of export … period. Our results also indicate that China's impact on Italian export performance is small and if anything positive. Much … more important in explaining the loss of export market shares in recent years has been the relatively slow demand growth in …

different, depending on whether the export decision refers to a core or a peripheral market, it is plausible that while firms …. Second, using firm-product-destination-specific export data for all firms in the Swedish food chain for the period 1997 … that firms will indeed tend to stay longer in their core markets, while export decisions regarding peripheral markets are …

, in order to gain more insight into how exports are affected. A panel regression of an export demand function is estimated … direction of improving institutional deficiencies has contributed, among other factors, to the observed post-crisis export …

The lack of information is a relevant obstacle to the export activity of small and medium enterprises. This paper … analyzes whether banks can support firms' export by reducing informational asymmetries about foreign markets. We exploit a … exogenous to firms' export decisions by relying on preexisting lending relationships and exploiting the acquisition of a firm …

This paper studies the relationship between export activities and firm-level productivity. Unique matching of German … existing studies, both directions hold: more productive firms self-select themselves into export markets and being active in …

This paper studies the relationship between export activities and firm-level productivity. Unique matching of German … existing studies, both directions hold: more productive firms self-select themselves into export markets and being active in …

reason for this result is that most previous studies are restricted to analysing the relationship between a firm's export … status and the growth of its labour productivity, using the firms' export status as a binary treatment variable and comparing … score (GPS) methodology that allows for continuous treatment, that is, different levels of the firms' export activities …