Firm Heterogeneity and Exports: Stylized Facts from Greek Firms

摘要

The paper presents a set of empirical regularities that characterize the activity of Greek exporters. Using a unique data set of Greek manufacturing firms with firm-level exports, credit scores and other financial variables for the 2003-2015 period, we find that export value increases with the firm's size, labour productivity, the skill premium of wages and the employment ratio in research and development activities. Moreover, the results indicate that less credit-constrained Greek exporters with higher credit scores export more.