constructing exact confidence intervals for the maximum value, we demonstrate that – at least with respect to West Germany …

manufacturing industries in Germany using newly available, unique data. We find concave age-productivity profiles and a negative …

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 …