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 …

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 …

information spillovers across markets on the export patterns of four developing countries (Egypt, Korea, Malaysia and Tunisia). A …

A single variable describes, day-by-day, what investors think about the state of Brazil's economy: the Brazilian … markets' assessment of the probability that Brazil might default on its debt obligations. This is mainly because the cost of … domestic interest rates, is thus the necessary first step in order to understand macroeconomic developments in Brazil. The …