) through which immigrants generate increased export flows from the regions in which they settle to their countries of origin … relationship going from diasporas and immigrant entrepreneurs towards export flows. Both the size of the diaspora and the number of …'s overall competitiveness and export flows towards all potential destinations …

This paper investigates four cohorts of firms from German manufacturing industries that started to export in the years … between 1998 and 2002 and follows them over the five years after the start. Export starters are a rare species and they are … contributed by export starters of a cohort is tiny in the start year, and it remains so over the years to follow, although those …