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

-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 …

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. …

, 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 … to more different destination countries, and they export a higher share of their total sales in three out of five …

total sales, or export participation over time, or the number of goods exported, or the number of countries exported to …. This paper documents that low-productive exporters are competitive because they export high-quality goods. The quality of …

constraints and export activities using data at the level of the firm. This paper presents a tabular survey of 32 empirical …: Financial constraints are important for the export decisions of firms – exporting firms are less financially constrained than …

-productivity exporters are not marginal exporters defined according to the share of exports in total sales, or export participation over time …

Export Recovery in 2009/2010. The empirical investigation finds that firms that exported in both 2009 and 2010 are much more … important for the export dynamics than export starters and export stoppers. Firms that increased their exports (and that were … the drivers of the export boom) exported on average more goods and to more destination countries in 2009 than firms that …