an impact of subsidies on the share of exports in total sales in West Germany but no evidence in East Germany. …We use newly available representative panel data for manufacturing enterprises in West and East Germany to investigate … the link between production-related subsidies and exports. We document that only a small fraction of enterprises is …

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 …-way traders do have the highest premia, followed by firms that only export, while firms that only import have the smallest …

This study reports results from an empirical investigation of business services sector firms that (start to) export … 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 …

policy makers in an evidence based way. This holds true especially for Germany, a leading actor on the world markets for … assessment of 51 empirical studies on exports and firm characteristics that use data for German establishments or enterprises … between firm characteristics and export activities, demonstrating the decisive role of human capital intensity for exporting …

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 …

Germany, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and profitability. It … to nearly all empirical studies on the relationship between productivity and exports we do not find any evidence for self …-selection of more profitable firms into export markets. Due to the sampling frame of the data used we cannot test the hypothesis …

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 … actor on the world market for manufactured goods. It documents that firms that export to countries inside the euro-zone are …

We investigate the causal impact of equity market liberalizations in the period 1980‐1997 on sectoral export … use relationship‐specific inputs, and lowered exports of industries using standardized inputs. …

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