This paper provides the first empirical evidence on the link between the number of foreign markets (where a market is … that in German manufacturing industries the profitability of a firm increases when the number of markets a firm exports to …

enterprises explains India's improved export performance during the postreform period. The recent literature stresses that firm … heterogeneity gives some firms an edge over others to self-select into export markets. Apart from ownership, this paper considers … firm heterogeneity and other firm-specific factors of export performance. Estimation results show that the impact of …