exports play a key role in shaping business cycles and growth in Germany, and the much higher unemployment in East compared to … West Germany, promotion of exports by East German firms figure prominently on the policy agenda ... …

computer and business service industries. Exports include both goods and services. Estimates based on the conditional fixed …

A non-linear model is applied where suddenly strong spurts of exports occur when changes of the exchange rate go beyond … path-dependent play-hysteresis into a regression framework. The hysteretic impact of real exchange rates on German exports … German exports. -- Exchange rate movements ; play-hysteresis ; modelling techniques ; switching/spline regression ; export …

This paper explores the link between exports and total factor productivity (TFP) in Brazilian manufacturing firms over … exports significantly, but with stagnant aggregate TFP growth. The authors first estimate firm-level TFP under alternative … control for the possibility that selection into exports may not be a random process. Their results confirm the self …

/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 … that idiosyncratic shocks to very large firms played a decisive role in shaping the export collapse. -- exports ; great …

between productivity and exports, and exploiting heterogeneous technology diffusion from immigrant communities in the United …