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The papers in this book deal with various aspects of firm behavior and firm performance. All of them use micro data and micro-econometric methods to investigate the role of firm characteristics for the dynamics of enterprises.

Four papers (in chapters 1 – 4) look at exports with a focus on productivity, innovation and the share of exports to low-income countries; firm dynamics in the so-called Great Export Collapse in the financial crisis of 2008/2009; the role of credit constraints for extensive margins of exports; and the role of “soft power” – the rate of approval of the job performance of the leadership of a home country among the people of a foreign country – for exports from the home country to this country.

Three papers (in chapters 5 – 7) investigate the links between the presence of a firm on the web – i.e. having a website of its own – and various aspects of firm performance like productivity, firm size, international firm activities, and firm survival in times of COVID-19. The big picture is that better firms do have a website and that a website helped to survive the pandemic.