... not possess the preferable set of characteristics, which would imply that chances are substantial that they fail on international markets. F14 F23 H42 O52 Exports Export promotion SMEs Firm performance Table 1. P2S-Projects per firm (2000–2010) # P2S-projects per firm...

... is reached. Productivity Financial constraints Competition Family firms International trade Ecuador D22 D24 F14 L60 L10 Additionally, empirical evidence has shown that two-way traders (firms engaged in both export and import activities) have higher productivity than firms that do...

... in the global volume trade of goods for the second quarter of 2020 compared with the first quarter of 2020. This decrease was larger than the one provoked by the Great Recession between the third quarter of 2008 and first quarter of 2009 (10.2% decline). F10 F14 Tourism Spain COVID-19 Trade...

... elements to describe some stylized facts of international trade (comparative advantages, specialization, imperfect competition and economies of scale), “they proved inadequate to explain a range of empirical findings that emerged in the 1990s from new firm level data sets” (Helpman, 2011). F14 M10...

.../licences/by/4.0/legalcode International trade Corruption Gravity equation Income level Regional trade agreements F14 F15 Corruption in the public sector is probably one of the main elements of failures in governance (Acemoglu and Verdier, 2000) which directly affects institutional...