This paper investigates the impact of energy policies on the export performance of firms. There has been a long policy … technologies. Regression analyses and matching approaches both show very few impacts of energy policy on export performance …

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The relationship between individual firms’ export behaviour and firm performance has been studied extensively in the …-exporting companies, using the firms’ export status as a binary treatment variable and comparing the performance of exporting and non … individual firms’ export behaviour. Instead of a binary treatment variable, the GPS method allows for continuous treatment, that …

internationalisation effects at the firm level. The results show that export experience and experience in knowledge protection are highly … qualified labour expels production of new products. R&D activities abroad and exports of new products spur firm growth in the …

between the two sales modes most frequently used by the sampled exporters: direct exports and exporting via an intermediary …

domestic market, better performers engage in export activities, and the top firms establish foreign subsidiaries. Using German …

evidence of state dependence in the current export status of firms. Unobserved permanent firm heterogeneity ("spurious state … dependence") is found to be less important than suggested by earlier studies. The existence of true state dependence in exports …