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 …

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 …

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 …