are for the UK and France. We examine whether firms at different stages of export activity (starters, exiters, continuers …, switchers) react differently to changes in financial variables. In general, export starters and exiters experience much stronger … exporters and export switchers is less negatively affected by financial characteristics. These relationships between exporting …

’ 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 …

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 …

We develop a model of international trade with two dimensions of firm heterogeneity and export quality constraints that … exporter premia cannot be rationalized through these models as they imply no variation in export status once size is controlled … strong support for the model. We also investigate the sources of export quality constraints using firm-level trade shipment …