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

firm characteristics and export activities, demonstrating the decisive role of human capital intensity for exporting. It …

for self-selection of more productive firms into export markets is found. There is no evidence for the hypothesis that … plants which start to export perform better in the three years after the start than their counterparts which do not start to … between exporters and non-exporters is at least in part the result of a market driven selection process in which those export …

, when observed firm characteristics and unobserved firm specific effects are controlled for. We find that export-starters in … services are less profitable than non-starters, even two years before they begin to export, pointing to self-selection of less … profitable firms into export markets. We use a recently developed continuous treatment approach to investigate the causal impact …

This paper studies factors associated with firm participation in export markets, focusing primarily on firm size and … interdependent relationships between export participation, firm size, and access to credit. SMEs participating in export markets tend … participation in export markets. The estimation results also point to the supportive influences of foreign ownership, worker …