different exit risk relative to non-traders. A plausible explanation is that in a global recession, deteriorating markets abroad … from factor markets abroad. Two-way traders do not show a link with exit risk, supporting the idea that they were able to …

higher productivity, and both a higher human capital intensity and research and development intensity. These characteristics …

This paper presents the parametric estimation of the rates of technical change and total factor productivity (TFP …

age and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … manufacturing industries in Germany using newly available, unique data. We find concave age-productivity profiles and a negative … paribus lower level of productivity in firms with a higher share of female employees does not go hand in hand with a lower …

presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between productivity and size of the export market for Germany, a … entry costs that can only be paid by more productive firms.  …