minimum wages and productivity on firms' exports. It shows that the influence of minimum wages on firms' exporting probability … and foreign sales is negative while that of firms' productivity on their exports is positive. Econometric analysis based … 2007 verifies these predictions. Holding the other variables constant, if minimum wages and their productivity increase by …

The paper tests the role of agglomeration effects on the export decision of services firms. Recent theories on trade … with heterogeneous firms predict that export participation goes along with sunk market-entry costs. Only the more …-city areas. Standard empirical tests of the new trade models consistently find productivity-based ex ante self selection by …

aggressive export policies of Northern Europe via their low wage policies. (6b) Given the similarity of the tax policies in the …

integrated export potential (for example, by forming big oligopolistic financial and industrial groups in the mining, metallurgy … area in order to realize their trade and investment interests. FDIs turned Ukraine into an increasingly export …

The study of export performance, especially for countries with serious external imbalances, is essential for economic … decision-making. This study attempts to evaluate Greek export performance during the 1996-2001 period, using detailed panel … data on bilateral trade by product. Factors explaining Greek export market shares are analysed with the method of Constant …

-price competitiveness plays a vital role in explaining export performance and failure to include it in the export equation may lead to mis …