macroeconomic shocks. Our results confirm that selection into exporting is largely driven by productivity and industry technological …/ product innovations for a group of newly exporting Spanish firms vs. a non-exporter control group. We use propensity score … kernel matching and difference-in-differences to help deal with endogenous exporting, sunk exporting costs and common …

subsidies on export activities we find no impact of subsidies on the probability to start exporting, and only weak evidence for …

probability to export and initial labour productivity is low once firm effects are controlled for. Surprisingly, the impact of … labour productivity on exporting does not differ between micro enterprises and the remaining SMEs (10-249 employees … productivity and skill intensity only explain a small proportion of the export boom of Swedish software SMEs. …

exporting, while larger and more productive firms are less likely to exit the export market. With respect to ex-ante firm …We analyze the link between firms’ access to finance and their decisions to enter and exit the export market. We employ … characteristics, our results confirm that larger and more productive, as well as foreign-owned, firms self-select into exporting. By …

Recent studies offer an ambiguous picture on the effectiveness of foreign aid in strengthening the export capacity of … own export interests …

ownership and access to external finance affect the likelihood of manufacturers in emerging markets to export and/or import …. Applying propensity score matching to control for differences across firms in terms of labor productivity, size, etc., we find … firm will export or import. Foreign ownership has a large positive impact on the likelihood to engage in direct trade but a …