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 estimates the exporter premium in bank lending. We examine credit relationships in Germany, covering all …

financial crime regulation - to assess how payment disruptions impede cross-border trade. Using firm-level export data from … borrowers start to export less. This trade decline occurs on both the extensive and intensive margins and firms do not …-developed countries to export to richer parts of the world. …

Medium Enterprises (SME), their probability to export (i.e. the extensive margin) and their share of exports on total sales … impact on both SME's probability to export and their export margins. This positive effect is only marginally mediated by the …