We use newly available representative panel data for manufacturing enterprises in West and East Germany to investigate … an impact of subsidies on the share of exports in total sales in West Germany but no evidence in East Germany. …

profit of the non-exporting firms. Given that Germany is one of the leading actors on the world market for services, the …

Germany is one of the most important exporters of manufacturing goods in the world, but by far not all manufacturing … firms in Germany are exporters, and there is a remarkable gap between the share of exporters in all manufacturing firms … between West Germany and East Germany. While in West Germany in 2004 about two in three manufacturing plants were exporters …