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 …

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

Germany, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and profitability. It … to nearly all empirical studies on the relationship between productivity and exports we do not find any evidence for … selfselection of more profitable firms into export markets. Due to the sampling frame of the data used we cannot test the hypothesis …