The determinants of export behaviour at firm level have been widely investigated for manufacturing companies. By …, international trade in services has grown significantly over the last few years. However, it is unclear why some companies export …-specific characteristics such as size, productivity, human capital, experience on the national market in Germany, etc. on the firms' export …

This study reports results from an empirical investigation of business services sector firms that (start to) export … and productivity hold in the years before the export start, which indicates self-selection into exporting of more … relationship between profitability and starting to export is found …

-way traders do have the highest premia, followed by firms that only export, while firms that only import have the smallest …