-econometric studies for 16 different countries on the relationship between export destination and firm performance. (2) It reports … share of outliers. Using a "clean" sample without outliers the estimated productivity premium of firms that export to the … Euro-zone only is no longer much smaller that the premium of firms that export beyond the Euro-zone, too, and the premium …

developed country. It uses unique new data from Germany - one of the leading actors on the world market for services - that … is evidence that firms with fdi are less productive than firms that export …

This paper investigates four cohorts of firms from German manufacturing industries that started to export in the years … between 1998 and 2002 and follows them over the five years after the start. Export starters are a rare species and they are … contributed by export starters of a cohort is tiny in the start year, and it remains so over the years to follow, although those …

(ALMP) in many OECD countries. Germany is a good example where the spending on start-up subsidies for the unemployed … creation schemes, or wage subsidies – the empirical evidence on the effectiveness of such schemes is still scarce; especially … long-run. Moreover, we consider effect heterogeneity with respect to several dimensions and show that start-up subsidies …

paper replicates the study using unique newly available panel data sets for all manufacturing plants from Germany (1995 …

manufacturing industries in Germany. We use unique newly available data that for the first time combine information from the …