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 …

whether export premia and self-selection into export markets exist in the business services sector. To ensure the … transferred to investigate the business services. -- Export premia ; self-selection into export markets ; business services …

, 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 …

provides first evidence about export and productivity in the German business services sector. The database used is the German … business services enterprises self-select into export markets. However, no evidence is found concerning the hypotheses that … exporting increases productivity. -- Export ; productivity ; business services ; panel data …

-- Export ; Produktivität ; unternehmensnahe Dienstleister ; Niedersachsen ; Paneldaten …

. Bisherige Erkenntnisse über den Zusammenhang zwischen Export und Unternehmensperformance stammen fast ausschließlich aus dem …

-way traders do have the highest premia, followed by firms that only export, while firms that only import have the smallest …