We investigate the impact of Brazilian state financing to exports - Proex, Exim and Drawback - on the performance of firms in foreign trade between 1998 and 2007. We focus on the risk of abandonment of export activity; number of destinations; and export value. We find a positive relationship between export programs and the intensive and extensive export margins, as well as with persistence in international trade. Supported firms had their chance to keep exporting augmented between 4% and 13%, increasing their number of destinations by up to 43% and the export value between 74% and 90%, although not all three programs are effective.

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Export performance,Financial constraints,State export promotion,Treatment effect models