domestic market, better performers engage in export activities, and the top firms establish foreign subsidiaries. Using German …

implications. Export platform FDI is used to explain the behavior of foreign firms that invest in Thailand. Using three measures of …This paper investigates the relationship between firm heterogeneity and a firm's decision to export, using the annual … time, able to break down FDI by country of origin to observe whether the behavior of MNEs differs by region of origin. We …

India`s exports nearly tripled in the 1990s. Decomposing export growth shows that it has been driven by incumbent firms … the firm`s decision to export, we find evidence that economic liberalization has led to greater domestic competition …, spurring firm efficiency and increasing Indian firms` competitiveness and ability to export. We show that export growth has …

domestic market, better performers engage in export activities, and the top firms establish foreign subsidiaries. Using German …

-economy model, we explore predictors that firms will engage in global markets and export more intensively. Our results based on a … detailed firm-level panel of data for Brazilian 52,667 firms from 1995-2007, show that the decision to export and increase … export sales is driven by size, the debt ratio, the current ratio and operating costs as well as the direct impact of the …

, is a key to achieve better export performance. Looking at this direct relationship, it is also found that the SMEs … sharing, etc. and therefore, the variables in the study act as competitive advantage for firms’ better export performance …