constraints and the extensive margins of exports in Germany, one of the leading actors on the international market for goods. In … negative impact of credit constraints on both the number of goods exported and the number of export destination countries that …

imports in Germany for the first time. We find empirical evidence that a better credit rating score is positively related to …

This paper analyzes the impact of financial development on export concentration. I incorporate credit constraints into … increases innovation activity and export shares of larger firms. In contrast, a model variant in which exporters have to finance … production costs instead of investments suggests a negative impact of financial development on export concentration as smaller …

.rm credit scores used by banks for their lending decisions, we assess how credit constraints affect export quality … export quality upgrading, credit constraints may affect the intensive margin of trade. …

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 …

to export, constrained exporters export 74.2% less, and relaxing financial constraints increases firms' exports. These …How do firms' financial constraints, which restrict their borrowing, dynamically impact exports? This paper finds that … after controlling for the endogeneity of financial constraints, constrained firms are less likely to export, and relaxing …

. -- Credit constraints ; exports ; Germany …This study uses newly available enterprise level data for firms from manufacturing industries in Germany to test for …, and exports. In line with hypotheses from theoretical model we find a positive link between a better credit rating score …

The paper examines the causal effect of financial constraints on firm exports. We exploit a firm-level proxy of … constraints based on credit ratings and available for a large panel of Italian exporting and non exporting firms. Our estimation … strategy allows to cure for self-selection into exports and endogeneity of financial constraints. At the same time, we can …

of the heterogeneous firm models from the new new trade theory is that exporters are more productive than non …-exporters. However, many firms from the lower end of the productivity distribution are exporters. Germany is a case in point. A recent … study reports that these low-productivity exporters are not marginal exporters defined according to the share of exports in …

's exports and the distance to destination countries for Germany. To anticipate the most important result, it is shown that the …