is evidence that firms with fdi are less productive than firms that export. -- exports ; foreign direct investments … evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct investment (fdi) in services firms from a highly … – where the firms with the highest productivity engage in fdi while the least productive firms serve the home market only and …

This study reports results from an empirical investigation of business services sector firms that (start to) export … comparable enterprise level data from France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Exporters are more productive and pay higher wages … and productivity hold in the years before the export start, which indicates self-selection into exporting of more …

the micro-structure of the recent export collapse in manufacturing industries in Germany during the crisis of 2008 …/2009. Almost all of the decline in exports was due to negative changes of exports in firms that continue to export (i.e. at the so …-called intensive margin) while the decrease of exports due to export stoppers (at the so-called extensive margin) was tiny. It is shown …

. -- 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 …