This study reports results from an empirical investigation of business services sector firms that (start to) export … and productivity hold in the years before the export start, which indicates self-selection into exporting of more … relationship between profitability and starting to export is found. -- Business services firms ; exports ; self-selection ; France …

-selection of innovative services firms on export markets. We have to admit, however, that the panel is too short, and that the … number of firms that start to export and start to perform R&D during the period under investigation is too small, for any … ; export ; business services ; Germany …

the micro-structure of the recent export collapse in manufacturing industries in Germany during the crisis of 2008 …/2009. Almost all of the decline in exports was due to negative changes of exports in firms that continue to export (i.e. at the so …-called intensive margin) while the decrease of exports due to export stoppers (at the so-called extensive margin) was tiny. It is shown …

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 …

. It documents that more innovative firms outperform less innovative firms at both margins of exports - they export more … goods and they export to a larger number of countries. All these differences are statistically highly significant and large …

negative impact of credit constraints on both the number of goods exported and the number of export destination countries that …

theoretical predictions we find that foreign-owned firms do export more goods to more countries after controlling for firm size …

firms that start or stop to export over the period under investigation, and that are not representative for the bulk of … firms that either export or not. …

line, then, is that R&D activity does matter for success of German business services firms on export markets - but not much …. -- innovation ; export ; business services ; Germany …