-selection hypothesis and show that starting to export yields an extra TFP growth that emerges since a firm's first year of exporting but … productivity, which reinforces the importance of accounting for firm export status to study the evolution of productivity. …

he export participation of SMEs in the Swedish computer and business service industries has increased rapidly over the … last decade. Despite this, export participation rates-including those of micro enterprises-remained low at 13 per cent in … of micro enterprises, this study investigates the determinants of the export participation of Swedish SMEs in the …

This paper investigates factors that contribute to the survival of export relationships at the firm and product levels … export relationships. Firms that innovated prior to exporting are also likely to enjoy longer export spells, while … better survival of a new export product. Furthermore, this paper reveals novel roles of export product characteristics in …

is then estimated based on quarterly data from 1995Q1 to 2010Q3. For some of the main export partners of Germany outside … German exports. -- Exchange rate movements ; play-hysteresis ; modelling techniques ; switching/spline regression ; export …

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 …

export growth on the intensive margin with respect to the exporter’s productivity growth is between 1.6 and 2.4 depending …

This paper examines changes in the steel-related export structure of the ten largest steelmaking economies between 2004 …) are developed for a number of low, medium and high value-added steel products, indicating that export specialisation … the export structure of countries, and finds a positive correlation between innovation activity and export specialisation …

that firms that both export and import are the most productive, followed by importing-, exporting-only firms and non …