Export Credit Guarantees and Export Performance: Evidence from Austrian Firm-level Data

Ownership Structure and Export Performance: Firm-Level Evidence from Korea

The central objective of our paper is to empirically examine the relationship between the ownership structure of firms and their export performance. To do so, we use data from Korea, a classic example of successful export-oriented industrialization. While a large and growing empirical literature investigates the relationship between the ownership structure and overall performance of firms, ther...

Evidence from Austrian Firm-Level Data

This paper provides an economic assessment of export credit guarantee commitments by the Austrian export credit agency, using firm-level data on a cross-section of 178 Austrian exporting firms for the year 2008. In a first step, we estimate the relative importance of various determinants of export guarantee usage. Results suggest that the most crucial determinants are: firm size, whether or not...

Determinants of Export Performance of Pakistan: Evidence from the Firm-Level Data

This paper explores the determinants of export performance at the level of firms in respect of their characteristics and supply side constraints. The analysis is based on a survey of export-oriented firms in four major sectors. The results indicate a relationship between the better performance of foreign-owned firms to their better know-how and resources compared to the domestically owned firms...

Evidence from Bangladeshi Transaction-Level Export Data

“Export Performances and Export Learning in the Tunisian manufacturing Industry: Evidence from Firm Panel Data”

As demonstrated in recent empirical litterature on firms’export performances, the international market for goods acts as a screen that selects firms access according to both internal and external factors influencing their productivity. This paper focuses particularly on production costs as a key factor that differenciates non exporting from exporting firms. In a first stage, a general framework...