America would be the largest preferential trade agreement in the world. Encompassing almost half of world GDP, it will have …

This paper investigates the impact of energy policies on the export performance of firms. There has been a long policy … technologies. Regression analyses and matching approaches both show very few impacts of energy policy on export performance …

Trade and growth theories predict a mutual causation of innovation and exports. We test empirically whether innovation … causes exports using a uniquely rich German micro dataset. Our instrumental-variable strategy identifies variation in … exogenous to firms export performance. We find that innovation attributable to this variation leads to an increase of roughly 7 …

2011) in a model that explains the decision of heterogeneous firms to export and to engage in R&D. Using a non … firms with exports and R&D dominates that of exporters without R&D, which in turn dominates that of firms that neither … export nor engage in R&D. These results are in line with findings for firms from manufacturing industries. The model …

, and exports. In line with hypotheses from theoretical model we find a positive link between a better credit rating score … of a firm and both the probability that the firm is an exporter and a higher share of exports in total sales. This link … hypothesis that credit constrained firms are less likely to start to export is at best weak, we find no evidence for a …