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 …

This paper uses information on more than 160 million export and import transactions by German firms from 2009 to 2012 … foreign markets a firm from manufacturing industries is active on as an exporter or importer is higher in firms that are … exception of labor productivity these results are valid ceteris paribus, too. All these empirical results are in line with …

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 …