Using quantile regression and a rich cross section data set for German manufacturing plants this paper documents that …

This paper uses a large plant level panel data set from Germany and a matching approach to look for causal effects of …

of establishment panel data for three different industries from official statistics evidence is presented that the …

This paper presents the first empirical test with German establishment level data of a hypothesis derived by Helpman …, Melitz and Yeaple in a model that explains the decision of heterogeneous firms to serve foreign markets either trough exports …

This paper uses an unbalanced panel data set for exporting firms from manufacturing industries in one German federal … state, Lower Saxony, to investigate the micro-structure of the recent export boom. Looking at data for 1995/96 to 2001/02 it … dynamics is due to positive and negative changes of exports in plants that continue to export. A small fraction made of four to …

While the role of exports in promoting growth in general, and productivity in particular, has been investigated … empirically using aggregate data for countries and industries for a long time, only recently have comprehensive longitudinal data …, in 45 microeconometric studies with data from 33 countries that were published between 1995 and 2004. Details aside …

positive connection between foreign production and both exports and imports points at the significance of efficiency …

resources towards unproductive activities? In this paper we explore this question using data for a large number of developing …