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

in Asia has been the rise of China, and not preferential trade agreements. In the last two decades, Chinas has managed to … establish itself as the indispensable trading partner in the region. In 2011, China accepted a trade deficit with its … of co-operation are formidable. Other Asian countries like to co-operate with China, but demonstrate an even rising …

-selection hypothesis and show that starting to export yields firms an extra TFP growth that emerges since the first year exporting but … law of motion for productivity, which reinforces the importance of accounting for firm export status to study the …

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

The aim of this paper is to investigate whether the probability of ceasing to export is lower for firms that … simultaneously import intermediate inputs and export (vertically specialized firms à la Hummels et al., The Nature and Growth of …, sourcing inputs from abroad plays an important role in continuing to export. Thus, it seems that small firms which are both …

reports a negative impact of credit constraints on both the number of goods exported and the number of export destination …

Export participation of SMEs in Swedish computer services has increased rapidly over the last decade. Despite the … increase, export participation rates of SMEs including micro enterprises remain rather low at 13 percent in 2010. Based on … determinants of export participation of Swedish SMEs in the computer service industry. Exports include both goods and services …

affects the likelihood of manufacturers in developing countries to export and/or import. Applying propensity score matching to … is an economically important and statistically significant determinant of the likelihood that a firm will export and …/or import. Foreign ownership raises the propensity to export by over 17 and the propensity to import by more than 13 percentage …

through which major emerging economies (BRICs, i.e., Brazil, Russian Federation, India and China) could catch up with advanced …