The lack of information is a relevant obstacle to the export activity of small and medium enterprises. This paper … analyzes whether banks can support firms' export by reducing informational asymmetries about foreign markets. We exploit a … exogenous to firms' export decisions by relying on preexisting lending relationships and exploiting the acquisition of a firm …

evidence that is consistent with this prediction. Over a fifteen year period between 1995 and 2009, the rise in import …

The international transmission of knowledge through import spillovers, as a source of TFP growth, has received much … attention in the literature. We investigate two additional direct channels through which R&D disseminates: the import of high … significance of import spillovers for all countries included, we find additional spillovers for developing countries through the …