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 …

This paper analyzes the impact of increasing international competition on the evolution of export prices in the last … three decades. We investigate both the sensitivity of export prices to exchange rate movements, and the dynamics of profit … margins for a large number of manufacturing products exported by France, Germany and Italy. We find that export price dynamics …

performing non parametric tests on TFP distributions on different groups of firms characterized by their export and innovation … non innovators, respectively. We pursue with OLS regressions and show that the export premium, defined as the productivity … advantage of exporters over non-exporters, is robust to the introduction of innovation statistics. We conclude that export and …

This paper investigates the relation between export behaviour and the exchange rate at firm level. We use a dataset of … French manufacturing firms from 1994 to 2004, to study the sensitivity of firms' export intensity and probability of entering …. We show that for most industries, the exchange rate has an influence on export entry, but that the effect of changes in …

performing non parametric tests on TFP distributions on different groups of firms characterized by their export and innovation … non innovators, respectively. We pursue with OLS regressions and show that the export premium, defined as the productivity … advantage of exporters over non-exporters, is robust to the introduction of innovation statistics. We conclude that export and …