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strategy allows to cure for self-selection into exports and endogeneity of financial constraints. At the same time, we can …The paper examines the causal effect of financial constraints on firm exports. We exploit a firm-level proxy of … exports of within firm changes in financial constraints status. We find that financial constraints produce a sizable reduction …
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credit constraints by using a financial score built on eight variables. In order to assess the effects of exports on the …
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’s probability to enter the export market. After controlling for potential endogeneity of the innovation activities, only firms with …
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This paper contributes to the literature by using propensity score matching to test for causal effects of starting to export on firm performance in Croatian manufacturing firm-level data. The results confirm that exporters have characteristics superior to those of non-exporters. In the main...
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propensity score matching to address issues of endogeneity and sample selection. When the estimation is done for the whole …
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The paper empirically assesses microeconomic exporting-productivity nexus using the data for Ukrainian manufacturing and service sectors for the years 2000-2005. The results of the estimation show that firms with higher total factor productivity (TFP) levels in the period prior to entry are much...
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This paper sheds light on Latvian exporters – how active they are, what challenges they face, what makes them succeed or fail. Our study draws on a survey of 503 medium-sized Latvian companies. We find that most medium-sized Latvian companies are exporters (either directly or indirectly) and...
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The aim of this paper is analysing the role of internal and external financial constraints in the firms’ joint decision to export and invest in R&D. Our empirical strategy consists of estimating a bivariate probit that explicitly acknowledges that a firm R&D and export decisions are...
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trade are related to credit constraints show a significant difference between the two. In the case of exports, it is the … extensive margin of exports in terms of destinations that is significantly associated with credit constraints whereas for …
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mitigate the agency cost generated by exogeneous exports variation via higher free cash flow and cash flow volatility …
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