in Germany. This paper uses enterprise level panel data for France, Germany and the United Kingdom from 2003 to 2008 to … firms that start or stop to export over the period under investigation, and that are not representative for the bulk of … firms that either export or not. …

in particular information about firms' productivity and export performance. Our results show that while the average …

after controlling for the endogeneity of financial constraints, constrained firms are less likely to export, and relaxing … to export, constrained exporters export 74.2% less, and relaxing financial constraints increases firms' exports. These … results suggest that developing countries need to improve financial environments in ways besides currently used export …

sticky prices. It offers a channel by which the expectations of future exchange rates can affect current export prices at … both countries, combined with forward exchange rates, we find that export prices significantly respond to forward premiums …

their profitability in different countries and products, but learn it as they start to export. As a consequence, exporters …, we find empirical support consistent with such a mechanism, where firms learn from their initial export experiences and …

In this paper, we empirically examine how export pioneers emerge and how they are related to product creators … covers the process from the appearance of product creators as well as product imitators to the emergence of export pioneers …. We find, first, that product imitators are larger, more productive and older than product creators. Second, most export …

premium of female-run firms in Germany. The results show that female-run firms gain a higher exporter-productivity premium than …