heterogeneous firm models from the New New Trade Theory is that exporters are more productive than non-exporters. It is argued that … in Germany. This paper uses enterprise level panel data for France, Germany and the United Kingdom from 2003 to 2008 to … firms that start or stop to export over the period under investigation, and that are not representative for the bulk of …

Exporting involves sunk costs, so some firms export while others do not. This proposition derives from a number of … export markets; but entry does not make them any more productive. This paper investigates exporting and firm performance for …

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 …

in trade in manufactured goods in Germany and the United Kingdom for the period 1970-93. A measure of the extent of … considerable mobility is found, with the degree of mobility in the United Kingdom exceeding that in Germany …

by firms. We find that smaller, younger, and more risky firms, on the one hand; and firms that do not export and are not …

exports of large manufacturers, while the evidence of such channel is weaker for SMEs. Our estimates indicate that, from 1991 … till 2007, large firms increased their volume of exports by an average of 22% as a result of the direct input cost effect … service inputs. Furthermore, convergence to the “best practice” regulatory framework in services would have raised exports at …

This note uses comparable representative data for manufacturing firms from five European countries (Germany, France …, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom) to investigate the links between firm age and the participation of the firms in export …, the share of exports in total sales, the number of countries exported to, and the participation in import. The big picture …

The aim of the article is to identify determinants of export of road vehicles from Slovakia to the United Kingdom. The … variable. The results suggest that export of road vehicles is in the long-run impacted by exchange rate and industrial … production. The appreciation of exchange rate reduces export from SR to the UK while rising income increases foreign demand. In …