In this paper we analyse the relationship between export and innovation activities of German service sector companies … Schumpeterian hypothesis of export activities being mainly driven by innovation activities. Factor endowment theories are only … partially supported. While human capital significantly improves export performance, labour costs hamper it only in selected …

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

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

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 …

The relationship between individual firms’ export behaviour and firm performance has been studied extensively in the …-exporting companies, using the firms’ export status as a binary treatment variable and comparing the performance of exporting and non … individual firms’ export behaviour. Instead of a binary treatment variable, the GPS method allows for continuous treatment, that …

-based firms in Germany and the UK, this paper applies logistic regressions and analyses empirically the probabilities of changing …