Germany, one of the leading actors on the world market for goods, that merge information from surveys performed by the …

the government incentive to impact on entry costs, and how entry subsidies can be used strategically in open economies. We … the monopoly pricing distortion. In the autarky equilibrium these subsidies trigger entry, but they eventually do not lead … to more but to better firms in the market. In the open economy there is another, strategic motive for entry subsidies as …

This paper studies the link between a firm's education level, export performance and wages of its workers. We argue … find that firms with high export intensities pay higher wages. However, an interaction term between export intensity and … skill intensity has a positive impact on wages and it absorbs the direct effect of the export intensity. That is, we find an …

Low-wage subsidies are often proposed as a solution to the unemployment problem among the low skilled. Yet the … empirical evidence on the effects of low-wage subsidies is surprisingly scarce. This paper examines the employment effects of a …

both imports and exports, and iii) examine the impact of imports according to the country of origin. Looking at the export …

In "new" new international trade theory, whether firms export or not are determined by their productivity. These models … an alternative way to model whether firms export or not, namely as a firm-level decision akin to an investment decision … with a real option value. We show that endogenizing the export decision is consistent with patterns of productivity and …

, little is known about the sources behind the gap: Is it because more productive (and/or higher paying) firms export, because … more productive workers select into the export sector, or is it because matches in the export sector are more productive … returns and thereby the exporter wage gap becomes a result of workers selecting into the export or non-export sector based on …