domestic market, better performers engage in export activities, and the top firms establish foreign subsidiaries. Using German …

intellectual property (IP) ownership. Further, we employ firm-specific micro-data on patent applications of European corporations … at the European Patent Office to test reactions on changes in R&D tax incentives and corporate tax burden. We find a … and the count of patent applications. …

essential component for a firm's success. We use firm-level panel data stemming from Belgian R&D surveys and apply a production …

contend with new foreign competition after the introduction of the Euro. Panel data taken from a quarterly business survey in … in their expectations that the Euro will increase export activity and product innovation, but significantly more East … entering new markets and developing new products is stronger for firms which already export than for those who do not. Further …

This paper analyses the relationship between firm productivity and export behavior in German manufacturing firms. We …-productivity firms self-select themselves into export markets, while exporting itself does not play a significant role for productivity …

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 … selfselection of more profitable firms into export markets. Due to the sampling frame of the data used we cannot test the hypothesis …