Export growth and firm survival

Economics Letters

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 481-486

  Emami Namini, Julian ^a,b   Facchini, Giovanni ^b,c,d,e,f   López, Ricardo A ^g  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^e CEPR   (United Kingdom)

^f CESIFO   (Germany)

^g BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chile; Firm heterogeneity in factor intensities; Firm survival; Manufacturing sectors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879706187     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2013.05.025     Document Type: Article

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