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 …

Using firm-level destination country-specific export data and bank branch data from China, we find that foreign banks … can significantly promote firms’ export toward the destination country where the banks are originated from. Our findings … promote local firms’ export more in sectors in need of trust, promote ordinary export strongly but has almost zero impact on …

activities. We use it to analyze export market specialization with loan and export data for all exporters in Peru. We measure a …

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

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 …