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 …

, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom) to investigate the links between firm age and the participation of the firms in export … revealed is in line with the theoretical considerations. Older firms tend to be more often exporters and importers, they export … to more different destination countries, and they export a higher share of their total sales in three out of five …