This paper examines whether the export decision of firms is affected by their ownership structure, specifically it … controlled firms do indeed export less than other type of companies even after controlling for firm heterogeneity in productivity …

’ export share and productivity gains. Productivity growth declines with the share of exports on total sales, up to a threshold …, productivity gains also arise for smaller export shares. One likely explanation of this finding is that being successful in the … export market for exporters of traditional products also requires investments in technological upgrading. These investments …

participation in the export market. …

product codes over time results in less product adding and dropping at continuing firms in the Belgian export and production …

cluster'' industrial policy, implemented in France in 2005, have performed better on export markets during the recent economic … of firms on export markets, and conditioning on survival, a higher growth rate of their exports. However, these effects …

This paper studies how firm-level export performance is affected by Real Exchange Rate (RER) volatility and … investigates whether this effect depends on existing financial constraints. Our empirical analysis relies on export data for more … this negative impact, especially on the intensive margin of export. These results provide micro-founded evidence suggesting …

France has seen a marked deterioration in its export performance in the last 10 years or so. Previous empirical … research pointed out that weak export performance was due to i) vigorous domestic demand; ii) lower mark-ups due to head …-to-head competition with Germany; iii) low non-price competitiveness of French export goods; iv) offshoring of entire production processes …

This paper investigates the effects of ethnic violence on export-oriented firms and their workers. Following the … disputed 2007 Kenyan presidential election, export volumes of flower firms affected by the ensuing violence dropped by 38 … percent and worker absence exceeded 50 percent. Large firms and firms with stable contractual relationships in export markets …