This literature review aims to systematize the knowledge about the relationship between exports and firm performance … learning-by-exporting hypothesis, that is, firms' performance improvements - in particular, in productivity - experienced after … present, tends to occur in the articles relating to developing countries and Brazil. One possible explanation is that firms in …

quality. We model theoretically the effects of real exchange rate changes on the optimal price and quantity responses of firms … with experts wine ratings as a measure of quality. In response to a real depreciation, we find that firms signifucantly …

Policies to stimulate export growth and diversify the composition of exports in South Africa are now high on the … government’s agenda. In order to understand exporting and its impact on job creation, one needs to understand how firms function … related policies. This paper reviews the evidence on South African exporting firms, highlighting what we know, and what we do …

analyzes whether banks can support firms' export by reducing informational asymmetries about foreign markets. We exploit a … large sample of Italian firms for which we merge custom data with information on their lender banks. We identify a shock … exogenous to firms' export decisions by relying on preexisting lending relationships and exploiting the acquisition of a firm …