international export performance at the firm level. To this end, we use Belgian firm-level data for the period 1999-2010 to analyze … significant negative effect of unit labor costs on export performance of firms with an estimated elasticity of the intensive … costs reduce the probability of starting to export for non-exporters and increase the probability of exporters stopping …

and export performance among European economies. We use the information compiled in the Trade module of CompNet to …-exporters. However, this productivity premium is rising with the export experience of firms, with permanent exporters being much more …

export their highest-sales products across multiple destinations. To account for these regularities, we develop a model of …

and the second year of export is biased upwards because new exporters may start exporting late during the year. This … incomplete calendar year reduces export revenue by 32% on average for the first year of export. We then show that, controlling … for size, export experience is negatively related to net growth of exports for surviving exporters. Controlling for export …

the performance of firms in export markets. Using a unique microeconomic database that combines data on Argentine firms …' characteristics and export performance with information on their domestic and external financing, we provide a rich insight into their … access to foreign financing export a wider variety of products and serve more distant and developed markets. We also study …

This paper explores firms' export dynamics in emerging economies where local firms face stiff foreign competition, both … at home and abroad, and thus compelled to choose the level of quality in which to export. We develop and test a model of … vertical product differentiation where the link between export performance and product quality is central. The impact of other …

non-exporters. However, selecting high export potentials is difficult in practice. The contribution of this paper is to … characterize and identify these (high) export potentials. According to the Melitz (2003) model, potential exporters have to be … productive enough to overcome the entry costs of foreign markets. Once firms pass this productivity threshold, they all export …