forms of internationalisation). Most widely spread are import- and export activities, followed by sales and service …Im Zeitraum 2009 bis 2011 waren rd. 1,3 Mio. Unternehmen aus Deutschland, zu 99 % KMU, international aktiv. Damit … Unternehmen erwogen eine Ausweitung bereits bestehender Auslandsaktivitäten und gut 20% die erstmalige Aufnahme einer (Export …

information on the export and import value by firm, country, product and year for the period 2011-2019. Problems arising from the …

managers. Using Spanish firm-level data, we compare how family-managed and professionally-managed firms react to import … competition shocks. We find that import competition leads to productivity increases in family-managed firms that are initially …

the relationship between invoicing currency choices and the response of import prices to exchange rate changes. We find … that for transactions invoiced in a vehicle currency, import prices are much more sensitive to changes in the vehicle … currencies. Our results help to explain the higher-than-expected pass-through into import prices during the Great Recession and …

measure to evaluate processing frictions is the time it takes to import. In this paper we translate import processing times to … buffer processing shocks. Based on this theory, we employ detailed data on import processing dates, instrumental variables …, and firm-product-origin level import data to estimate import processing costs. Evaluated at the median, import processing …

. The empirical strategy relies on variation in import competition across local labor markets based on their industrial … composition before China entered the global market in 2001. In contrast to much of the existing literature, we find that import …

The transition into non-traditional export activities attracts important policy and academic attention. Using … international trade data, we explore how alternative linkages relate to the take-off and acceleration of export industries … labor. Technology has a predictive power depending on the specification used. We consistently find, however, that export …