theoretical predictions we find that foreign-owned firms do export more goods to more countries after controlling for firm size …

affects the likelihood of manufacturers in developing countries to export and/or import. Applying propensity score matching to … is an economically important and statistically significant determinant of the likelihood that a firm will export and …/or import. Foreign ownership raises the propensity to export by over 17 and the propensity to import by more than 13 percentage …

ownership and access to external finance affect the likelihood of manufacturers in emerging markets to export and/or import … firm will export or import. Foreign ownership has a large positive impact on the likelihood to engage in direct trade but a …