engaged in international markets, drawing on micro-data from Belgium, Finland, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, the United … export destination country and for firms that trade bundles of services and manufacturing products, than it is for pure …

This paper analyzes how firms with different financial strength levels respond to demand shocks in their export markets … 2014, which allows us to analyze the effects of several macroeconomic shocks affecting the export product demand and … performance of exporting firms. We find that financially stronger export firms are better positioned during both positive and …

successful entry and operation in the export markets using duration analysis. Rich longitudinal microlevel data on Finnish … first part of the analysis, we focus on the factors that explain the duration of time until entering plants start to export …. The second part of the study concentrates on the duration of time until exit from the export markets. Our special focus is …

. Services firms are more likely to import than to export. Their prevalent type of trade is trade in goods. The complexity of …

firms is somewhat less dominated by firms that both export and import than trade by manufacturing firms. In terms of value …. Few firms export many services or to many countries. Those firms that export services to many countries account for a … large share of export value; this is not the case for all countries for the firms which export many services. -- exports …

analysis shows that Finnish export performance has suffered from unfavorable structure of markets and commodities in particular … intermediate goods has grown. This has had unfavorable implications on export prices and the terms of trade. …

. Services firms are more likely to import than to export. Their prevalent type of trade is trade in goods. The complexity of …