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 …The lack of information is a relevant obstacle to the export activity of small and medium enterprises. This paper …

export expansion, this is not occurring at a large enough scale to be felt at the macro level. To seize the benefits of trade …Unlike many countries, Egypt did not experience significant labor market improvements following trade liberalization … present a simplified general equilibrium model inspired by Melitz (2003) with two sectors: one able to export and one "reserve …

control for issues of self-selection and endogeneity in the firms' decisions to export by providing fixed effects and … international trade increasing competition and therefore the price elasticity of product demand, exporters are predicted to have … exporting on firms' labor demand. Using rich, administrative linked employer-employee panel data from Germany, we explicitly …

/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 … that Idiosyncratic shocks to very large firms played a decisive role in shaping the export collapse. -- exports ; great … the micro-structure of the recent export collapse in manufacturing industries in Germany during the crisis of 2008 …

This paper documents for the first time the relationship between profitability and three types of international trade … activities – exports, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from … statistically significant and economically large effects of trade activities on profits. This demonstrates that any productivity …

employees to operate in multicultural environments. This knowledge becomes like an intangible asset to which firms can resort … workforce diversity on firms' exporting performances and find that ethnic diversity further justifies firms' different presence … in international markets. Since hiring is not a random practice, and firms ultimately select into ethnically different …

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 …, a comprehensive dataset of manufacturing firms for 2011-2015. Uniquely, the data provides information about the severity … 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 …There is a large literature documenting that workers in exporting firms receive higher wages on average than workers in … non-exporting firms. This is also the case for Denmark, where the unconditional exporter wage gap is 3 percent. However …

This paper examines the links between the internationalization mode of firms and market imperfections in product and … labor markets. We develop a framework for modelling heterogeneity across firms in terms of (i) product market power (price …-setting power) and (iii) revenue productivity. We apply this framework to analyze whether the pricing behavior of firms in product …