sourcing of inputs. Using firm-level data from Germany in 2009, which include mainly small and medium-sized firms, the …

manufacturing and services. Using firm-level data from the manufacturing and service sector in Germany and a broad range of ICT …

impact of foreign competition on managerial compensation, (2) differences in the impact between Germany and the U.S. and (3 … covering the period from 1984-2010 for Germany respectively 1992-2011 for the U.S. and apply system GMM in order to solve … Germany. A differentiation between imported intermediates (efficient sourcing strategy) and final inputs (competition) reveals …

Germany, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and profitability. It … selfselection of more profitable firms into export markets. Due to the sampling frame of the data used we cannot test the hypothesis … the whole range of the export-sales ratio. Only firms that generate 90 percent and more of their total sales abroad do not …

reason for this result is that most previous studies are restricted to analysing the relationship between a firm's export … status and the growth of its labour productivity, using the firms' export status as a binary treatment variable and comparing … score (GPS) methodology that allows for continuous treatment, that is, different levels of the firms' export activities …

, using a new and large employer survey on wage and price setting behaviour for Germany. We observe that wage freezes are more …