The lack of information is a relevant obstacle to the export activity of small and medium enterprises. This paper … analyzes whether banks can support firms' export by reducing informational asymmetries about foreign markets. We exploit a … exogenous to firms' export decisions by relying on preexisting lending relationships and exploiting the acquisition of a firm …

Low export participation of firms across countries is typically related to high entry costs allowing only the most … productive firms to serve foreign markets. In this paper, we move beyond individual firm characteristics to explain export … participation and investigate whether firms' domestic network linkages can facilitate export entry. Firms receive information from …

Objective: The article aims to explore the impact of main factors on the export dynamics of Ukrainian regions in the … regional export performance and main factors influencing its development in Ukraine, based on regional data of the State … Statistics Service of Ukraine and the National Bank of Ukraine for 2003-2019. The article focuses on the analysis of export …

This paper studies the relationship between export activities and firm-level productivity. Unique matching of German … existing studies, both directions hold: more productive firms self-select themselves into export markets and being active in …

This paper studies the relationship between export activities and firm-level productivity. Unique matching of German … existing studies, both directions hold: more productive firms self-select themselves into export markets and being active in …

In Germany, for the reporting year 2009 transaction-level data on exports and imports of goods have been aggregated at …

Export is dominated by enterprises that trade more than one good with customers in more than one destination country …. Germany, one of the leading actors on the world market for goods, is a case in point. Theoretical models of multiple …-product, multipledestination exporters that can guide empirical research of their production and export decisions are still rare. Recently, Bernard …

Germany, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and profitability. It … selfselection of more profitable firms into export markets. Due to the sampling frame of the data used we cannot test the hypothesis … the whole range of the export-sales ratio. Only firms that generate 90 percent and more of their total sales abroad do not …

difference in the propensity to export between West and East German plants is to a large part due to differences in firm size and …

presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on … into export markets is found. There is no evidence for the hypothesis that plants which start to export perform better in …. Results for West Germany support the hypothesis that the productivity differential between exporters and non-exporters is at …