The lack of information is a relevant obstacle to the export activity of small and medium enterprises. This paper … analyzes whether banks can support firms' export by reducing informational asymmetries about foreign markets. We exploit a … exogenous to firms' export decisions by relying on preexisting lending relationships and exploiting the acquisition of a firm …

This paper studies the link between a firm's education level, export performance and wages of its workers. We argue … find that firms with high export intensities pay higher wages. However, an interaction term between export intensity and … skill intensity has a positive impact on wages and it absorbs the direct effect of the export intensity. That is, we find an …

the micro-structure of the recent export collapse in manufacturing industries in Germany during the crisis of 2008 …/2009. Almost all of the decline in exports was due to negative changes of exports in firms that continue to export (i.e. at the so …-called intensive margin) while the decrease of exports due to export stoppers (at the so-called extensive margin) was tiny. It is shown …

subsidies on export activities we find no impact of subsidies on the probability to start exporting, and only weak evidence for …. -- Subsidies ; export ; Germany ; enterprise panel data …

We explore the export performance of Africa's underperforming female entrepreneurs, using the Ghanaian ISSER-IGC panel … of key business constraints, across both male and female entrepreneurs. We find that females are less likely to export …

, little is known about the sources behind the gap: Is it because more productive (and/or higher paying) firms export, because … more productive workers select into the export sector, or is it because matches in the export sector are more productive … returns and thereby the exporter wage gap becomes a result of workers selecting into the export or non-export sector based on …

find export status to be positively correlated with both product market power (markups) and market power consolidated on …