workforce sheds new light on the role of highly qualified employees for success on export markets that is not revealed by the …

higher wages) and increase their exports of goods and services. …

import as well as the export activity of the firm. These two innovations allow us to avoid large biases that characterized … recent theories that aim at explaining participation both in export and import markets and at including non …

control for issues of self-selection and endogeneity in the firms' decisions to export by providing fixed effects and …

of income and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm …'s innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey data which provides direct measures for innovations and firm … export and hence to catch up to the technological frontiers. This negative effect is amplified as financial constraints force …

the link between production-related subsidies and exports. We document that only a small fraction of enterprises is … subsidized, and that exports and subsidies are positively related. Using a matching approach to investigate the causal effect of … subsidies on export activities we find no impact of subsidies on the probability to start exporting, and only weak evidence for …

difference in the propensity to export between West and East German plants is to a large part due to differences in firm size and …

world market for goods. Furthermore, for the first time the direction of causality in this relationship is investigated …-way traders do have the highest premia, followed by firms that only export, while firms that only import have the smallest …