This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the role that financial constraints play in shaping firms' export … quantity associated with financial constraints. -- Financial constraints ; margins of export ; export prices …

uncover the determinants of the fickle and stable parts of firm export product mix, we use a cross section of firm …

control for unobserved firm fixed effects both in the selection and in the export equation, thus identifying the effect on …

This paper investigates the relation between firms' productivity and exporting behavior in presence of export … productivity-sorting prediction according to which domestic firms are less efficient than those resorting to an export intermediary …, while the latter are less productive than producers which export directly. Our novel finding is that firms' productivity has …

-selection into export and potential endogeneity of the financial constraints proxy …

trade. In particular, we account for the possibility that firms can not only export their products, but also internationally … than those resorting to an export intermediary, while the latter are less productive than producers which export directly …

result, validated on Italian firm-level trade data, is consistent with productivity sorting in the export mode and with the … intermediary export flows to a given destination react to exchange rate movements along the extensive margin of adjustment …