difference in the propensity to export between West and East German plants is to a large part due to differences in firm size and …

policy makers in an evidence based way. This holds true especially for Germany, a leading actor on the world markets for … between firm characteristics and export activities, demonstrating the decisive role of human capital intensity for exporting …

, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from Germany, one of the …

We use newly available representative panel data for manufacturing enterprises in West and East Germany to investigate … 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 …

exporting on firms' labor demand. Using rich, administrative linked employer-employee panel data from Germany, we explicitly … control for issues of self-selection and endogeneity in the firms' decisions to export by providing fixed effects and …

East and West Germany. As expected, there are substantial differences with respect to all three of these measures … or redistributive preferences. Nonetheless, individuals from East Germany tend to be more supportive of state …

question, we use the reunification of Germany as a natural experiment and study the post-reunification trajectory of …

data on West Germany are used and we exploit the expansionary family policy during the late 1980s and 1990s for …

West Germany. The empirical results suggest that even a quarter of a century after displacement, first generation migrants …

. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and West Germany, whether these differences …