This paper analyzes the allocation of workers to jobs and the wage distribution in Germany. Our main contribution is to …

We investigate the effect of better access to foreign markets on innovation strategies of multi-product firms in … between the returns to innovation. In differentiated industries, cannibalization is lower and firms invest more in product … innovation. In homogeneous industries, firms internalize intra-firm spillovers and invest more in process innovation. We test …

Using Dutch data we empirically investigate how financing and innovation vary across firm characteristics. We find that … when firms face financial constraints, debt financing and innovation choices are not independent of firm characteristics …

Trade and growth theories predict a mutual causation of innovation and exports. We test empirically whether innovation … exogenous to firms export performance. We find that innovation attributable to this variation leads to an increase of roughly 7 …