’ 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 …

. Services firms are more likely to import than to export. Their prevalent type of trade is trade in goods. The complexity of …

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 …

This paper studies whether trade integration between the EU15 and Central Europe has led to more export specialization … in Central Europe. Moreover, we analyze the impact of institutional reforms in Central Europe on export specialization … that a reduction in tariffs between EU15 and Central Europe led to increased export specialization in Central Europe. In …

Following along the lines of a growing literature on the causal link between export- ing and productivity this paper … het- erogeneous frms that generates learning effects through competition in the export markets. The estimations performed …

heterogeneous firms that generates learning effects through competition in the export markets. The estimations performed on the …

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 …