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 …

Netherlands using self-employment data for the 1960-99 period. We find error-correction of about20% per year and a very different …

regions in the Netherlands over the period 1988-2002, we find that firm entry is related to productivity growth in services …