level of income and export intensity. Specifically, the paper investigates theoretically and empirically how financial … constraints affect a firm's innovation and export activities. Theoretical predictions are tested using unique firm survey data … constraints strongly adversely affect the ability of domestically owned firms to innovate and to export and hence to catch up to …

adopt a model of firm heterogeneity and export participation which we estimate to match moments of the French data using the …

, explains the initial rise in unemployment. The reduction in union power also helps to explain the acceleration in productivity … low wages and productivity. A fall in union power results in a reduction in these inefficiencies and leads not only to a … rise in productivity but also in wages. …

productivity. It does not appear to have any special advantage over other measures for forecasting applications. …

Since 1979 productivity growth in Britain has improved markedly compared with Europe. The turnaround in productivity …

leading to poor productivity performance are the most plausible explanation of Britain's relative decline. It is argued both …

information-gathering. Accordingly, foreign services are increasingly marketing themselves as agents of export promotion. I …-section of data covering 22 large exporters and 200 import destinations. Bilateral exports rise by approximately 6-10% for each …

In this paper we analyse the relationship between gravity variables and f.o.b. export unit values using Hungarian firm …-product-destination data. By taking firm-product level selection into account we show that export unit values increase with distance even for … relationship between unit values and market size. We propose two possible explanations: first, firms may export different quality …