We analyse common stylized facts of services firms engaged in trade in a comparative study across four EU member countries. We find that, though relatively less engaged in trade than manufacturing firms, services firms have similar traits. Services firms are more likely to import than to export....

We establish a set of stylised facts for trade and trading firms in five market services sectors using comparable firm-level and services data from four EU countries. Our analysis shows that exports account for much lower shares of overall sales in the services sectors than in manufacturing. In...

We study the dynamic effects of research and development (R&D) subsidies on private R&D spending in Slovenia and examine the changes in corporate R&D spending behavior due to R&D subsidies by applying propensity score matching methodology. Taking the difference-in-differences approach, we...