I show in this paper that incomplete contracts affect a firm’s decision about serving foreign customers through exports …

This study provides evidence that shocks to the supply of trade finance have a causal effect on U.S. exports. The … a U.S. bank’s share of the trade finance market in a country is, the larger should be the effect on exports to that …’s supply of letters of credit increases export growth, on average, by 1.5 percentage points. The effect is larger for exports …

technology chooses either exports or technology transfer through licensing as its mode of supplying the Southern market, based on … increasing its exports. Welfare in the South would rise (fall) if that country has high (low) absorptive capacity. Excessively …

“Northern” group’s exports to other EU15 countries (which have remained intact), the Southern countries’s exports to the other …

-off between exports and foreign direct investment as alternative modes of foreign market access. The paper derives comparative …