This paper explores firms' export dynamics in emerging economies where local firms face stiff foreign competition, both … at home and abroad, and thus compelled to choose the level of quality in which to export. We develop and test a model of … vertical product differentiation where the link between export performance and product quality is central. The impact of other …

markets through increasing sales in these markets. This study aims to examine factors affecting export performance of SMEs in … level demonstrate relatively higher export activities. However, it can also be argued that SMEs do not have enough … knowledge-supporting programs are important for the export of SMEs in the Kyrgyz Republic. …

We explore the link between globalization of the retail sector and the export activity of firms from their origin … firms with IFS certification have better export performance on markets where French retailers operate. We find that … certified French firms are more likely to export, and export larger volumes, than non-certified firms to markets where French …

potentially heterogeneous effects of the different modes of export market entry. We study how productivity of firms is affected by … export entry simultaneously into several markets or export entry with several export products, and compare these to the entry … into fewer markets or the entry with fewer products. Our analysis is based on detailed export data from firms in Estonia …

The paper investigates the dynamics of export relationships – defined as shipments by a given firm to a given … the relationships evolve over time, presenting a number of stylized facts that are related to various theories of export … dynamics, such as a dynamic sunk-cost model and the recent literature on exporting and learning. We find that export …

This paper investigates factors that contribute to the survival of export relationships at the firm and product levels … export relationships. Firms that innovated prior to exporting are also likely to enjoy longer export spells, while … better survival of a new export product. Furthermore, this paper reveals novel roles of export product characteristics in …

The study is an attempt to analyse the impact of specific sources of finance on firms' export performance by … investigating empirically the SME exporters' preferred mode of financing their various export operations and linking it with their … export profitability. Based on the findings it is concluded that the funds sourced from commercial banks have a significant …

China's policy of encouraging export processing has been the topic of much discussion in the academic literature and … economically and statistically significant positive causal effects of entering into export processing and ordinary export markets … of the productivity variable. We also find that export processors gain more when entering the industrialised North rather …

affect FDI entry decisions in a dynamic setting, even when controlling for previous export experience in foreign markets. We …