This paper analyses the export market entry decisions of Dutch firms and their subsequent growth or market exit … and export market characteristics in order to disentangle the firm and country determinants of successful and less … successful export behaviour. First, we find that about 5% of all Dutch exporters have just started in their first market and a …

For small open economies, it is essential that many firms find their way to the export market and most governments … provide some form of export promotion assistance. We use detailed firm-level data for Flanders, the largest region in Belgium …

the product level which operates through the intensive margin (i.e., a decrease in export volume per exporter) rather than … no effect. The paper also finds that MEX antidumping measures caused a significant increase in the export prices of the … affected Chinese products, but no significant increase in the export prices for the other three countries. The paper does not …

causes that ease the negative spillover effects from the depreciation of the Chinese renminbi on Korea's export performance …

the endogeneity of the export decision, we implement an instrumental variable approach exploiting the notion of sequential …

European small and medium sized enterprises in their export markets we test and estimate the effects of language assets on … language performance in export markets and on export sales. Controlling for the possibility that language skills may be … acquired by exporting, we find a very substantial export return to linguistic expertise, indicative of unexploited gains from …

examine the impact of maritime piracy on Chinese export flows as well as firms' choice of transport mode. …