What explains Germany's superb export performance? Is Germany's export behaviour very distinct compared to other … countries. We examine the export business model of the median exporter and of the top one percent exporters in each country … export market share of the median exporter in each of the countries to the world more than tripled (in some cases the export …

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 …-income destinations. This note uses recently available comparable high quality firm level data for six European countries (including Italy …

, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom) to investigate the links between firm age and the participation of the firms in export … revealed is in line with the theoretical considerations. Older firms tend to be more often exporters and importers, they export … to more different destination countries, and they export a higher share of their total sales in three out of five …