productive than firms that continue to export in t. (H2) Firms that start to export in year t are less productive than firms that … export both in year t-1 and in year t. (H3) Firms from a cohort of export starters that still export in the last year of the … panel were more productive in the start year than firms from the same cohort that stopped to export in between. While …

reason for this result is that most previous studies are restricted to analysing the relationship between a firm's export … status and the growth of its labour productivity, using the firms' export status as a binary treatment variable and comparing … score (GPS) methodology that allows for continuous treatment, that is, different levels of the firms' export activities …

difference in the propensity to export between West and East German plants is to a large part due to differences in firm size and …

first comprehensive evidence on the relationship bet ween productivity and size of the export market for Germany, a leading … actor on the world market for manufactured goods. It documents that firms that export to countries inside the euro-zone are … more productive than firms that sell their products in Germany only, but less productive than firms that export to …

into export markets is found. There is no evidence for the hypothesis that plants which start to export perform better in … least in part the result of a market driven selection process in which those export starters that have low productivity at … time continue to export. …