Using unique recently released nationally representative high-quality data at the plant level, this paper presents the … first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between productivity and size of the export market for Germany, a leading …

evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct investment (fdi) in services firms from a highly … taking differences along the conditional productivity distribution and firms with extreme values, or outliers, into account …) indicate that the productivity pecking order found in numerous studies using data for firms from manufacturing industries …

document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the … systematically by testing for self-selection of more productive firms into importing, and for productivity-enhancing effects of … imports ('learning-by-importing'). We find a positive link between importing and productivity. From an empirical model with …

face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the average productivity of survivors increases. These pro …

-size distribution? Do they affect individual city sizes? Do they contribute to the productivity advantage of large cities and the …

This paper uses comprehensive high-quality panel data from official statistics for exporting enterprises to investigate …/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 …

This paper documents the relationship between firm survival and three types of international trade activities - exports …

to nearly all empirical studies on the relationship between productivity and exports we do not find any evidence for self …Using unique recently released nationally representative high-quality longitudinal data at the enterprise level for … Germany, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and profitability. It …