This paper investigates the impact of restrictive TBTs on firms’ extensive margins (export participation and exit … probability), intensive margins (export value) and pricing strategy (export price). To this end, product-level restrictive TBTs … and firm-level export are combined and an instrumental-variable approach is utilized. The results show that the imposition …

This paper challenges the common assumption of market segmentation in international trade. To analyze export entry and … export costs that allows us to compare firm-level and aggregate outcomes under arbitrary market interdependence. We find that … allowing for potential re-exporting arbitrage between countries imposes constraints on export prices of firms and has first …

China uses subsidies extensively to take a leading role in the global markets of green-tech products such as battery … electric vehicles and wind turbines. Against the background of the current EU investigations into Chinese subsidies in these … sectors, this article takes a careful look at the Chinese subsidy system and provides new data on direct government subsidies …

broadband infrastructure in rural areas of Germany. Such subsidies are subject to state aid control by the European Commission … subsidies complied with EU state aid rules, both in terms of effectiveness and competition …

branches to forecasting export growth across a multitude of European countries. Our pseudo out-of-sample analyses reveal that … indicators are superior: the Export Climate, the Production Expectations of domestic manufacturing firms, the Industrial … forecasters in order to choose the best-performing indicators and thus increasing the accuracy of export forecasts …