the aggregate analysis. Germany spends more on product quality enhancing activities such as R&D and investment in the …Diese Studie versucht zu einem besseren Verständnis von export performance und technologischer Leistungsfähigkeit … durchgeführten Fallstudien führen zu ähnlichen Schlußfolgerungen wie die aggregierte Analyse. In Deutschland sind mehr Ausgaben für …

[Introduction] Germany currently finds itself in a difficult economic situation, one characterised not only by a long …, pose a threat to Germany's medium-term growth prospects. In the international context the central challenges result from … opportunities for the export sector, but can also be expected to intensify competition and thus the pressure for adjustment; * the …

According to a widespread view, Germany's unemployment crisis is caused by rigid labour markets, low profitability and … Germany's unemployment rate since 1989, first because no distinction is drawn between the situation in the Eastern part of … Germany and that in the Western part of Germany, and second because supply-side conditions in the Western part of Germany have …

-specific characteristics such as size, productivity, human capital, experience on the national market in Germany, etc. on the firms' export …The determinants of export behaviour at firm level have been widely investigated for manufacturing companies. By …, international trade in services has grown significantly over the last few years. However, it is unclear why some companies export …

by far the biggest market for German products. The paper estimates a structural equation for the export demand from the … systematically underestimates the export demand for data from 1999 onwards, indicating that German exports have greatly benefited …

discussed or implemented in the framework of the environmental tax reform (ETR) introduced in Germany in 1999. This reform is …