price elasticity than the markets where France, Germany and Spain sell their exports. The result is mainly driven by the … motor vehicle and other transport equipment sectors. Net of these two industries, the export elasticities of the four …

engaged in international markets, drawing on micro-data from Belgium, Finland, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, the United … export destination country and for firms that trade bundles of services and manufacturing products, than it is for pure …

2011) in a model that explains the decision of heterogeneous firms to export and to engage in R&D. Using a non … export nor engage in R&D. These results are in line with findings for Argentina reported by Bustos, and with findings for … Germany and Denmark. The model, therefore, seems to be useful to guide empirical work on the relation between exports, R&D and …

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 …

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 provides econometric evidence supporting the hypothesis that export behavior cause learning effects. The …, learning-by-exporting is modeled as a change, induced by export behavior, in the stochastic process governing firm …'s productivity. Empirically, this is implemented specifying cross-section regressions of TFP growth on measures of export behavior …

Italian manufacturing firms. Using matched sampling techniques that control for selection bias, we estimate whether new export … findings indicate that export entrants improve their productivity in the first period after entry although this effect vanishes …