labour costs (-1.4%/year) and less favourable exchange rates (-2.0%/year). By far the most important determinant of export … period. Our results also indicate that China's impact on Italian export performance is small and if anything positive. Much … more important in explaining the loss of export market shares in recent years has been the relatively slow demand growth in …

different, depending on whether the export decision refers to a core or a peripheral market, it is plausible that while firms …. Second, using firm-product-destination-specific export data for all firms in the Swedish food chain for the period 1997 … that firms will indeed tend to stay longer in their core markets, while export decisions regarding peripheral markets are …

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 …

the travel activities of the heads of state of France, Germany and the United States between 1948 and 2003. My results …

France, Germany and the United States between 1948 and 2003. My results indicate that state and official visits are indeed …

the travel activities of the heads of state of France, Germany and the United States between 1948 and 2003. My results …

manufacturing firms. First, there is a negative correlation between firms' productivity and their export share to low …-income destinations. Second, there is a negative correlation between firms' innovation activity and their export share to low …

This note uses comparable representative data for manufacturing firms from five European countries (Germany, France …, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom) to investigate the links between firm age and the participation of the firms in export … revealed is in line with the theoretical considerations. Older firms tend to be more often exporters and importers, they export …