Using firm-level data for the UK, we investigate the link between firms’ financial health, borrowing ratio and export … position of firms has increased the hazard of export exit during the crisis. We also find that the sensitivity of export exit …

’ 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 …

It is widely accepted that China has been experiencing an export-led growth approach. However, the question whether … government can reshape industry structure through production subsidies to enhance export performance has not been answered. This … paper analyses the impact of production subsidies on firms’ export performance using a very comprehensive and recent firm …

participation in the export market …

the micro-structure of the recent export collapse in manufacturing industries in Germany during the crisis of 2008 …/2009. Almost all of the decline in exports was due to negative changes of exports in firms that continue to export (i.e. at the so …-called intensive margin) while the decrease of exports due to export stoppers (at the so-called extensive margin) was tiny. It is shown …

that firms that both export and import are the most productive, followed by importing-, exporting-only firms and nontraders …