The determinants of export behaviour at firm level have been widely investigated for manufacturing companies. By …, international trade in services has grown significantly over the last few years. However, it is unclear why some companies export …-specific characteristics such as size, productivity, human capital, experience on the national market in Germany, etc. on the firms' export …

line, then, is that R&D activity does matter for success of German business services firms on export markets – but not much. …

-selection of innovative services firms on export markets. We have to admit, however, that the panel is too short, and that the … number of firms that start to export and start to perform R&D during the period under investigation is too small, for any …

paper examines the links between firm-level export performance, foreign ownership, and the acquisition of technological …, human capital, technological capabilities, and geographical location are all positively associated with export shares …

paper analyzes (i) the relationship between technology specialization and export specialization across regions and (ii) how … the technology specialization of origin and destination affect the size and structure of link-specific export flows. We … find that the export specialization of a region typically corresponds to the region’s technology specialization, which …

regional export flows. Since the development of each export product may be assumed to be associated with innovation activity … human capital influence the extensive margin (number of export products) rather than the intensive margin (average export …-industry export flows from Swedish regions. The empirical results confirm the theoretical prediction that the response of regional …

. We further show that selection also applies to number of products traded. Both export and import productivity premiums …

scope of their export activities. Yet, the existing literature has paid little attention to the nature and variation of such … large and have a significant impact on aggregate export volumes. The findings do not only help to clarify the nature and …