In "new" new international trade theory, whether firms export or not are determined by their productivity. These models … an alternative way to model whether firms export or not, namely as a firm-level decision akin to an investment decision … with a real option value. We show that endogenizing the export decision is consistent with patterns of productivity and …

are also reflected in export performances and sales of innovative products. Our results go partially against other …

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 …

In this paper, we use a novel firm level dataset for Germany to investigate the effect of sanctions on export behaviour … dependent on Russia as an export market and those directly affected by the sanctions. …

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. …

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 …