the micro-structure of the recent export collapse in manufacturing industries in Germany during the crisis of 2008 …/2009. Almost all of the decline in exports was due to negative changes of exports in firms that continue to export (i.e. at the so …-called intensive margin) while the decrease of exports due to export stoppers (at the so-called extensive margin) was tiny. It is shown …

reports a negative impact of credit constraints on both the number of goods exported and the number of export destination …

workforce sheds new light on the role of highly qualified employees for success on export markets that is not revealed by the …

conducting a review of 33 studies from 26 countries around the world, and provide nine findings. Export boosting policies are … export promotion, export-oriented public grants, public export guarantee schemes and subsidised export loans. Our review … provides insights into policy effectiveness with respect to extensive and intensive export margins, as well as firms …

the impact of plant characteristics on export activities varies along the conditional size distribution of the export … status matters at the upper tail of the conditional distribution of the export/sales ratio only... …

vieler Hinsicht überlegen sind. Eine offene Frage ist, wie und in welchem Maße diese Firmen vom Export profitieren. Eine … nicht alle profitieren in gleicher Weise und in gleichem Maße vom Export. Starke positive Effekte finden sich bei mehr als …

, exporters are found to be more productive than non-exporters, and the more productive firms self-select into export markets …

-collar) employees working in a plant with an export-sales ratio of 60% earn about 1.8 (0.9) % more than similar employees in otherwise …

subsidies on export activities we find no impact of subsidies on the probability to start exporting, and only weak evidence for …

, when observed firm characteristics and unobserved firm specific effects are controlled for. We find that export-starters in … services are less profitable than non-starters, even two years before they begin to export, pointing to self-selection of less … profitable firms into export markets. We use a recently developed continuous treatment approach to investigate the causal impact …