’ 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 …

firms is somewhat less dominated by firms that both export and import than trade by manufacturing firms. In terms of value …. Few firms export many services or to many countries. Those firms that export services to many countries account for a … large share of export value; this is not the case for all countries for the firms which export many services. …

proposed by Finger and Kreinin (1979) with product quality. Quality is measured using unit export prices in the tradition of … the horizontal/vertical intra-industry trade literature. We analyse the EU27 countries export structures using 1) overall … measures. We find that the similarity of the export structures of the new member countries and the cohesion countries vis …

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 …