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 …

industries is found to be the main reason behind China's export barriers. They are part of a more extensive strategy aiming at …We investigate why governments restrict exports of exotic raw materials taking rare earth elements as a case study … creating comparative advantages in these sectors and at overcoming path dependencies. Moreover, export barriers serve as a …

2011) in a model that explains the decision of heterogeneous firms to export and to engage in R&D. Using a non … firms with exports and R&D dominates that of exporters without R&D, which in turn dominates that of firms that neither … export nor engage in R&D. These results are in line with findings for firms from manufacturing industries. The model …

, and exports. In line with hypotheses from theoretical model we find a positive link between a better credit rating score … of a firm and both the probability that the firm is an exporter and a higher share of exports in total sales. This link … hypothesis that credit constrained firms are less likely to start to export is at best weak, we find no evidence for a …

goods traded and various numbers of countries traded with from Germany, one of the leading actors on the world market for …