improve the business conditions in one country have negative productivity and welfare effects on the trading partner. Second …

; productivity ; financial constraint ; export ; technology frontier ; BEEPS … of income and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm …'s innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey data which provides direct measures for innovations and firm …

. -- Robust estimation ; panel data ; outliers ; Stata ; exporter productivity premium …

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 …

-setting power) and (iii) revenue productivity. We apply this framework to analyze whether the pricing behavior of firms in product … find export status to be positively correlated with both product market power (markups) and market power consolidated on …

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 …

firms export. This informs both the literature on trade costs and the microeconomic literature on firms' export behaviour …