activities – exports, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from …

's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey data which provides direct measures for innovations and firm … export and innovation activities to become substitutes although they are generally natural complements … of income and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm …

assessment of 51 empirical studies on exports and firm characteristics that use data for German establishments or enterprises … between firm characteristics and export activities, demonstrating the decisive role of human capital intensity for exporting …. (3) It links these findings to the recent literature from the new trade theory on international activities of …

This paper documents the relationship between firm survival and three types of international trade activities - exports …

the link between production-related subsidies and exports. We document that only a small fraction of enterprises is … subsidized, and that exports and subsidies are positively related. Using a matching approach to investigate the causal effect of … subsidies on export activities we find no impact of subsidies on the probability to start exporting, and only weak evidence for …

control for issues of self-selection and endogeneity in the firms' decisions to export by providing fixed effects and …

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

and account for a small share of gross, industry-level changes in exports, employment, output, and productivity. The … dynamics at the intensive margin is intense and heterogeneous. Plant mobility across deciles of export distribution has an …, similar shares of plants gradually move up and down the export ladder and changes in plants' relative position in the …

both imports and exports, and iii) examine the impact of imports according to the country of origin. Looking at the export … side, we find (on the basis of the system GMM estimator) a positive effect of exports on industry wage premia. The results …