-selection of innovative services firms on export markets. We have to admit, however, that the panel is too short, and that the … number of firms that start to export and start to perform R&D during the period under investigation is too small, for any …

line, then, is that R&D activity does matter for success of German business services firms on export markets - but not much. …

subsidies on export activities we find no impact of subsidies on the probability to start exporting, and only weak evidence for …

international export performance at the firm level. To this end, we use Belgian firm-level data for the period 1999-2010 to analyze … significant negative effect of unit labor costs on export performance of firms with an estimated elasticity of the intensive … costs reduce the probability of starting to export for non-exporters and increase the probability of exporters stopping …

2011) in a model that explains the decision of heterogeneous firms to export and to engage in R&D. Using a non … export nor engage in R&D. These results are in line with findings for firms from manufacturing industries. The model …

hypothesis that credit constrained firms are less likely to start to export is at best weak, we find no evidence for a … statistically significant difference in credit rating scores between firms that stopped to export and firms that continued to export. …

firms that start or stop to export over the period under investigation, and that are not representative for the bulk of … firms that either export or not. …