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 …

The relationship between individual firms’ export behaviour and firm performance has been studied extensively in the …-exporting companies, using the firms’ export status as a binary treatment variable and comparing the performance of exporting and non … individual firms’ export behaviour. Instead of a binary treatment variable, the GPS method allows for continuous treatment, that …