Firms in post-transition economies are frequently considered less efficient than those in more advanced market economies. By relying on the World Bank Enterprise Survey for the year 2019, firm-level technical inefficiency is estimated by the stochastic frontier analysis method for a sample of...

Extant studies examine the role of financial constraints on the international activity of the firms. However, they are mostly focused on the manufacturing sector, traditionally perceived as tradable. The literature recently recognized the growing role of service sector in international trade,...