labour costs (-1.4%/year) and less favourable exchange rates (-2.0%/year). By far the most important determinant of export … period. Our results also indicate that China's impact on Italian export performance is small and if anything positive. Much … more important in explaining the loss of export market shares in recent years has been the relatively slow demand growth in …

different, depending on whether the export decision refers to a core or a peripheral market, it is plausible that while firms …. Second, using firm-product-destination-specific export data for all firms in the Swedish food chain for the period 1997 … that firms will indeed tend to stay longer in their core markets, while export decisions regarding peripheral markets are …

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 …

the travel activities of the heads of state of France, Germany and the United States between 1948 and 2003. My results …

the travel activities of the heads of state of France, Germany and the United States between 1948 and 2003. My results …

France, Germany and the United States between 1948 and 2003. My results indicate that state and official visits are indeed …

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 …

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 … revealed is in line with the theoretical considerations. Older firms tend to be more often exporters and importers, they export …

price elasticity than the markets where France, Germany and Spain sell their exports. The result is mainly driven by the … motor vehicle and other transport equipment sectors. Net of these two industries, the export elasticities of the four …

2011) in a model that explains the decision of heterogeneous firms to export and to engage in R&D. Using a non … export nor engage in R&D. These results are in line with findings for Argentina reported by Bustos, and with findings for … Germany and Denmark. The model, therefore, seems to be useful to guide empirical work on the relation between exports, R&D and …