Information frictions make foreign trade risky. Therefore, many countries offer export credit guarantees that insure export transactions against buyers' default. We investigate the causal effects of guarantees on firm performance. To overcome selection bias, we employ a quasi-experimental design...

This paper investigates the impact of US Export-Import Bank (EXIM) on US exports particularly in the wake of international competition from foreign national export credit agencies (ECAs). We employ a gravity framework on a country-industry-year-level panel dataset that matches EXIM...