This paper analyses the effect of innovation on the well-established productivity-export association in the literature …, and export. The main finding is that firms which become innovative are more likely to also become an exporter, especially … when they do not have prior export experiences. …

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 …

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 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 …

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 …

significant reduction in the probability of export market participation …

he export participation of SMEs in the Swedish computer and business service industries has increased rapidly over the … last decade. Despite this, export participation rates-including those of micro enterprises-remained low at 13 per cent in … of micro enterprises, this study investigates the determinants of the export participation of Swedish SMEs in the …