-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 …

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

subsidies on export activities we find no impact of subsidies on the probability to start exporting, and only weak evidence for …

subsidies on export activities we find no impact of subsidies on the probability to start exporting, and only weak evidence for …

subsidies on export activities we find no impact of subsidies on the probability to start exporting, and only weak evidence for …

2011) in a model that explains the decision of heterogeneous firms to export and to engage in R&D. Using a non … export nor engage in R&D. These results are in line with findings for firms from manufacturing industries. The model …

hypothesis that credit constrained firms are less likely to start to export is at best weak, we find no evidence for a … statistically significant difference in credit rating scores between firms that stopped to export and firms that continued to export. …

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. …

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 …