The paper analyzes the link between financial constraints and firms' export decisions, using a large micro-level data … evidence that participation to exports market improves a firm financial health but not that export starters display specific ex …-ante financial advantages. By contrast, our result supports the view that financial constraints act as a barrier to export …

The paper analyzes the link between financial constraints and firm export behavior. Our main finding is that firms … literature which found evidence that export participation improves firm financial health, but not that export starters display … any ex-ante financial advantage. On the contrary, we find that financial constraints act as a barrier to export …

The paper analyzes the link between financial constraints and firms' export decisions, using a large micro-level data … evidence that participation to exports market improves a firm financial health but not that export starters display specific ex …-ante financial advantages. By contrast, our result supports the view that financial constraints act as a barrier to export …

The paper analyzes the link between financial constraints and firms' export decisions, using a large micro-level data … evidence that participation to exports market improves a firm financial health but not that export starters display specific ex …-ante financial advantages. By contrast, our result supports the view that financial constraints act as a barrier to export …

The paper analyzes the link between financial constraints and firm export behavior. Our main finding is that firms … literature which found evidence that export participation improves firm financial health, but not that export starters display … any ex-ante financial advantage. On the contrary, we find that financial constraints act as a barrier to export …

The paper analyzes the link between financial constraints and firms' export decisions, using a large micro-level data … evidence that participation to exports market improves a firm financial health but not that export starters display specific ex …-ante financial advantages. By contrast, our result supports the view that financial constraints act as a barrier to export …

The paper analyzes the link between financial constraints and firm export behavior. Our main finding is that firms … literature which found evidence that export participation improves firm financial health, but not that export starters display … any ex-ante financial advantage. On the contrary, we find that financial constraints act as a barrier to export …

Is corporate financial structure a determinant of non-price competitiveness in export markets? In this paper we provide … quality of their exported goods. This result is obtained on a sample including over 120,000 export flows of 6,229 French firms …-level measure of export quality obtained from the estimation of a structural model of demand (Berry, 1994); this estimator enhances …