firm, industry and host-regions matter in explaining heterogeneity in export behaviors. The international entrepreneurship … literature has highlighted that firm-, industry- and hostregion- level factors shape export behaviors, yet more research is … needed about their relative contribution. We decompose the variance of export behaviors of 4,982 Belgian SMEs during 2006 …

Low export participation of firms across countries is typically related to high entry costs allowing only the most … productive firms to serve foreign markets. In this paper, we move beyond individual firm characteristics to explain export … participation and investigate whether firms' domestic network linkages can facilitate export entry. Firms receive information from …

too. We note that the number of trading firms diminishes as the number of export destinations or import origins increases … import and export appear to be the most productive, followed, in descending order, by importers only, exporters only and non …-selection in both export and import markets. Also, the productivity advantage of exporters reported in the literature may be …

Belgian manufacturing firms from 1998 to 2005. Initial evidence suggests that, before export market entry, exporters to more …-by-exporting effects. However, applying matching methodology to formally evaluate the causal effects of export market entry on productivity …

employment between firms having different trading status account for 6 to 30 percent of total job reallocation. This effect is …

evidence in favour of self-selection of more productive firms into export markets, but nearly no evidence in favour of the …

key firm-level outcomes: export status and size. …

and export performance among European economies. We use the information compiled in the Trade module of CompNet to … nonexporters. However, this productivity premium is rising with the export experience of firms, with permanent exporters being much …