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SME recovery following a financial crisis: Does debt overhang matter? by Lawless, Martina, O’Connell, Brian, O’Toole, Conor

“…•We test whether debt overhang impacts SMEs recovery from the Irish financial crisis.•Higher debt burdens negatively affect negative investment and…”
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Corporate tax and location choice for multinational firms by Lawless, Martina, McCoy, Daire, Morgenroth, Edgar L. W., O"Toole, Conor M.

“…This article examines the effects of corporate tax on these location decisions of newly established multinational subsidiaries across 26 European countries…”
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Age or size? Contributions to job creation by Lawless, Martina

“…Small firms have been identified as drivers of job creation, although the evidence on their contribution to net employment growth has been disputed. This…”
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Firm export dynamics and the geography of trade by Lawless, Martina

“…Two recent trends in international economics have been an increased focus on the geography of trade (e.g. what factors determine where a country exports) and…”
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How has Brexit changed EU–UK trade flows? by Kren, Janez, Lawless, Martina

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Deconstructing gravity: trade costs and extensive and intensive margins by Lawless, Martina

“…This paper uses data on US exports to decompose exports into the number of exporting firms (the extensive margin) and average export sales (the intensive…”
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Products or markets: What type of experience matters for export survival? by Lawless, Martina, Studnicka, Zuzanna

“…Previous research has generally shown that increased export experience is positively correlated with the subsequent survival of newly launched export flows by…”
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Old Firms and New Export Flows: Does Experience Increase Survival? by Lawless, Martina, Studnicka, Zuzanna

“…In this paper we present new empirical evidence on the relationship between exporting experience and the duration of exports at the firm-product-destination…”
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Do Complicated Tax Systems Prevent Foreign Direct Investment? by Lawless, Martina

“…The negative relationship between tax rates and FDI is well known. This paper looks at how complexity of the tax system affects FDI. Fulfilling tax…”
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Market Power, Productivity and Sectoral Labour Shares in Europe by Lawless, Martina, Rehill, Luke

“…The stability of the labour share of income is a fundamental feature of many macroeconomic models. Empirically however, the labour share varies considerably…”
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Marginal Distance: Does Export Experience Reduce Firm Trade Costs? by Lawless, Martina

“…Are the costs of exporting to a market reduced if a firm has experience of exporting to a neighbouring market? If so, does this effect operate through reducing…”
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Firm strategies in expanding and diversifying exports by Lawless, Martina, Siedschlag, Iulia, Studnicka, Zuzanna

“…This paper provides novel empirical evidence on the patterns and dynamics of exports by Irish firms over the past two decades from a highly detailed data set…”
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Analysing SME investment, financing constraints and its determinants. A stochastic frontier approach by Martinez-Cillero, Maria, Lawless, Martina, O'Toole, Conor

“…In this paper we explore the link between Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) investment and their economic characteristics, together the presence of financing…”
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Firm credit in the euro area: a tale of three crises by Holton, Sarah, Lawless, Martina, McCann, Fergal

“…Using survey data from 2009 to 2011, we analyse the effects of the recent euro area economic, financial and private debt crisis on the supply of and demand for…”
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Where Do Firms Export, How Much and Why? by Lawless, Martina, Whelan, Karl

“…The empirical finding that exporting firms are more productive on average than non‐exporters has provoked a large theoretical literature based on models such…”
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Geography and firm exports: new evidence on the nature of sunk costs by Lawless, Martina

“…This paper presents an examination of the trading patterns of individual firms, looking at their coverage of export markets and movements into and out of…”
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Firm export participation: entry, spillovers and tradability by Lawless, Martina

“…This article analyses the choices made by individual firms to enter the export market. A probit specification tests the probability of exporting in the current…”
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Financial frictions and the SME investment gap: new survey evidence for Ireland by Martinez-Cillero, Maria, Lawless, Martina, O'Toole, Conor, Slaymaker, Rachel

“…In this paper, we use novel firm-level survey data on investment expenditure for Irish SMEs to investigate the existence of investment constraints between 2016…”
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Financial structure and diversification of European firms by Lawless, Martina, O'Connell, Brian, O'Toole, Conor

“…Small and medium enterprises have been shown to rely mainly on banks for funding and, unlike larger firms, rarely have direct access to capital markets. This…”
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Downward Nominal and Real Wage Rigidity: Survey Evidence from European Firms by Babecký, Jan, Du Caju, Philip, Kosma, Theodora, Lawless, Martina, Messina, Julián, Rõõm, Tairi

“…We present new evidence from a unique survey of firms across Europe on downward wage rigidity in both real and nominal terms. Our results indicate that wage…”
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