The paper offers a novel explanation for China's manufacturing exports performance after WTO entry. Building on … conjunction with China's WTO accession, and examines its effect on China's exports to the EU. The results reveal that: (i) the … structure of China's export boom to the EU conforms to the pattern of US tariff uncertainty; (ii) the adjustment takes place at …

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 …

evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct investment (fdi) in services firms from a highly … developed country. It uses unique new data from Germany - one of the leading actors on the world market for services - that … is evidence that firms with fdi are less productive than firms that export. …

activities - exports, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from … Germany, one of the leading actors on the world market for goods, that merge information from surveys performed by the …

/2009. Almost all of the decline in exports was due to negative changes of exports in firms that continue to export (i.e. at the so …-called intensive margin) while the decrease of exports due to export stoppers (at the so-called extensive margin) was tiny. It is shown … the micro-structure of the recent export collapse in manufacturing industries in Germany during the crisis of 2008 …

This study reports results from an empirical investigation of business services sector firms that (start to) export … and productivity hold in the years before the export start, which indicates self-selection into exporting of more … relationship between profitability and starting to export is found. …

investigate the relationship between exports and productivity. Our overall results are in line with the big picture that is by now … controlled for, and these exporter productivity premia tend to increase with the share of exports in total sales; there is strong … evidence in favour of self-selection of more productive firms into export markets, but nearly no evidence in favour of the …

While the role of exports in promoting growth in general, and productivity in particular, has been investigated …, exporters are found to be more productive than non-exporters, and the more productive firms self-select into export markets …