Using a large administrative dataset for Germany, this paper compares employment developments in exiting and surviving … establishments. For both West and East Germany we find a clear "shadow of death" effect reflecting lingering illness: establishments … are more clearly visible in West than in East Germany. Our results also hold when applying a matching approach. …

first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between productivity and size of the export market for Germany, a leading … more productive than firms that sell their products in Germany only, but less productive than firms that export to …

the micro-structure of the recent export collapse in manufacturing industries in Germany during the crisis of 2008 …

Using comprehensive data for West Germany, this paper investigates the determinants of establishment exit. We find that …

document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the … for trading internationally are about the same in West and East Germany. Compared to firms that do not trade at all two …

trade. This paper uses a large and rich set of linked employer-employee data from Germany to demonstrate that these premia …

Germany, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and profitability. It …

find that spinoffs are less likely to exit than other startups. We show that in West and East Germany and in all sectors …

comparable enterprise level data from France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Exporters are more productive and pay higher wages … significantly smaller in Germany, significantly larger in France, and does not differ significantly in the UK. The results for wages …