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...

This article analyses the effectiveness of the main instrument of Slovenian FDI policy, the 'FDI Co-financing Grant Scheme'. We look at the post-grant performance of foreign subsidiaries that received grants in 2000--09 using a double-track approach: calculation of performance premia of...