This paper analyses the structure of Greek exports and presents policy recommendations to boost export performance …. Despite recent improvements, export performance deteriorated in the last decade particularly in the service sector. The … has been sluggish due to severe liquidity constraints of exporters, lack of investment in export industries and in part …

Despite Greece’s long history as a trading nation, the country is failing to live up to its export potential. Small and … medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) could significantly contribute to strengthening Greece’s export performance, thereby helping … SMEs in export activity. The paper also discusses the potential role of a development bank and stresses the importance of …

In the years before the economic crisis, Portugal had low growth, a decline in export competitiveness and rising … imbalances that included a large current account deficit and a strong expansion of the non-tradable sector. Strengthening export … Portugal started an ambitious structural reform programme in 2011, but more needs to be done to build on the recent export …

enhance their domestic export performance. It shows that foreign sourcing is a complement to, rather than substitute for, the … creation of domestic value added and employment in exports highlighting how, with GVCs, export competitiveness is inextricably …

This paper investigates the effect of export entry on productivity, employment and wages of Latvian and Estonian firms … that are originally more productive and have better performances are more likely to enter export, Latvian and Estonian … firms also realise more than 23% and 14% higher labour productivity level as the result of export entry. Export entry also …

This study explores the impact of export shocks on firms and re-aggregates results to derive distributional effects on … relationships generate sectoral export shocks, which are simulated with the OECD METRO model of trade and subsequently fed into … knowledge-intensive services and are more intensive in tradable services. The results suggest limited impacts of export shocks …

This paper examines changes in the steel-related export structure of the ten largest steelmaking economies between 2004 …) are developed for a number of low, medium and high value-added steel products, indicating that export specialisation … the export structure of countries, and finds a positive correlation between innovation activity and export specialisation …

Portuguese export growth over the 1995-2016 period. The results highlight that there was no one single factor behind the export … explained by other factors. These include increases in the quality of export products and weak domestic demand that prompted … the Portuguese financial sector and its further development is beneficial for export growth. …

) through which immigrants generate increased export flows from the regions in which they settle to their countries of origin … relationship going from diasporas and immigrant entrepreneurs towards export flows. Both the size of the diaspora and the number of …'s overall competitiveness and export flows towards all potential destinations. …