exogenous to firms' export performance. We find that innovation attributable to this variation leads to an increase of roughly …Trade and growth theories predict a mutual causation of innovation and exports. We test empirically whether innovation … seven percentage points in the export share of German manufacturing firms. The evidence is robust to several alternative …

exogenous to firms' export performance. We find that innovation attributable to this variation leads to an increase of roughly 7 …Trade and growth theories predict a mutual causation of innovation and exports. We test empirically whether innovation … percentage points in the export share of German manufacturing firms. The evidence is robust to several alternative specifications …

. Both modes of innovation are expected to raise a firm's propensity to export. According to new trade theory, we conjecture …This paper provides an empirical analysis of the effects of new product versus process innovations on export propensity … at the firm level. Product innovation is a key factor for successful market entry in models of creative destruction and …

investigated with productivity levels as a proxy for technological performance and productivity changes as proxy for innovative …

manufacturing firms. First, there is a negative correlation between firms' productivity and their export share to low …-income destinations. Second, there is a negative correlation between firms' innovation activity and their export share to low … found between the share of exports to lowincome countries and either productivity or R&D intensity is never in line with the …