. -- Subsidies ; export ; Germany ; enterprise panel data … subsidies on export activities we find no impact of subsidies on the probability to start exporting, and only weak evidence for … an impact of subsidies on the share of exports in total sales in West Germany but no evidence in East Germany …

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

find export status to be positively correlated with both product market power (markups) and market power consolidated on …

The lack of information is a relevant obstacle to the export activity of small and medium enterprises. This paper … analyzes whether banks can support firms' export by reducing informational asymmetries about foreign markets. We exploit a … exogenous to firms' export decisions by relying on preexisting lending relationships and exploiting the acquisition of a firm …

Germany, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and profitability. It …-selection 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 …

are also reflected in export performances and sales of innovative products. Our results go partially against other …

document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the … for trading internationally are about the same in West and East Germany. Compared to firms that do not trade at all two …-way traders do have the highest premia, followed by firms that only export, while firms that only import have the smallest …

probability of exporting and the export intensity of these firms. The empirical specification is represented through a country … foreign ownership, information and communication technology, and firm size on the probability of exporting and on export … production workers and in terms of non-production workers tend to exert negative effects on firms' propensity to export. The …