We examine the relationship between firms' performance and credit constraints affecting export market entry. The existing research assumes that variation in firms' financial conditions identifies credit constraints. A critical assumption is that financial conditions do not affect real outcomes...

We find increasingly large variations in returns from momentum strategies in recent years. Momentum strategies did not earn significant excess returns during the period of 1993-2004 which was due to their poor performance over the period from 2001-2004. Using sub-samples of smaller...

We find large variations in returns from momentum strategies. Momentum strategies did not earn significant returns during the period of 1993-2004 which was due to their poor performance over the period from 2001-2004. We find that the previously documented large firm momentum effect is sensitive...