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 … (and optimize their exporting) than their male peers. Although reduced access to finance seriously constrains the exports …

-setting power) and (iii) revenue productivity. We apply this framework to analyze whether the pricing behavior of firms in product … of imperfections. Clear differences in behavior between firms that serve the foreign market either through exporting or … find export status to be positively correlated with both product market power (markups) and market power consolidated on …

and productivity hold in the years before the export start, which indicates self-selection into exporting of more …This study reports results from an empirical investigation of business services sector firms that (start to) export … services firms into exporting does not show up among firms from France and the UK where no statistically significant …

the productivity of exporting firms is in between – does not exist among firms from services industries. In line with the … evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct investment (fdi) in services firms from a highly … taking differences along the conditional productivity distribution and firms with extreme values, or outliers, into account …

stock measures of terrorism, and even for terrorist incidents with zero casualties. Spillovers from terrorism are relatively …

transaction costs, and the productivity shifts arising from migrationinduced knowledge diffusion and increased workforce diversity …

document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the … systematically by testing for self-selection of more productive firms into importing, and for productivity-enhancing effects of … imports ('learning-by-importing'). We find a positive link between importing and productivity. From an empirical model with …

estimates of the productivity premium of German firms exporting to the Euro-zone and beyond, controlling for unobserved time … share of outliers. Using a "clean" sample without outliers the estimated productivity premium of firms that export to the …. -- Robust estimation ; panel data ; exporter productivity premium ; export destinations …