line, then, is that R&D activity does matter for success of German business services firms on export markets – but not much. …

-selection of innovative services firms on export markets. We have to admit, however, that the panel is too short, and that the … number of firms that start to export and start to perform R&D during the period under investigation is too small, for any …

Export Recovery in 2009/2010. The empirical investigation finds that firms that exported in both 2009 and 2010 are much more … important for the export dynamics than export starters and export stoppers. Firms that increased their exports (and that were … the drivers of the export boom) exported on average more goods and to more destination countries in 2009 than firms that …

the micro-structure of the recent export recovery in 2010 in manufacturing industries in Germany after the great recession … export (i.e. at the so-called intensive margin) while the increase of exports due to export starters (at the so … export recovery. These findings are remarkably symmetric to the results from an analysis of the great export collapse of 2008/09. …

hypothesis that credit constrained firms are less likely to start to export is at best weak, we find no evidence for a … statistically significant difference in credit rating scores between firms that stopped to export and firms that continued to export. …

considerations. Older firms are more often exporters, export more and more different goods to more different destination countries …, and export to more distant destination markets. …