Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Maarseveen, Raoul van; … - 2017 - Draft version
productive enough to overcome the entry costs of foreign markets. Once firms pass this productivity threshold, they all export … services and manufacturing for 2010-2014. Our findings are threefold. First, high productivity is an important, but not a … sufficient condition for exporting. Firm size (substitute for productivity), import status, and foreign ownership are also …