-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 … estimates of the productivity premium of German firms exporting to the Euro-zone and beyond, controlling for unobserved time …

first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between productivity and size of the export market for Germany, a leading … actor on the world market for manufactured goods. It documents that firms that export to countries inside the euro-zone are … more productive than firms that sell their products in Germany only, but less productive than firms that export to …

This paper contributes to the literature on international firm activities and firm performance by providing the first … evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct investment (fdi) in services firms from a highly … taking differences along the conditional productivity distribution and firms with extreme values, or outliers, into account …

to nearly all empirical studies on the relationship between productivity and exports we do not find any evidence for self …-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 …

first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between productivityand size of the export market for Germany, a leading …

and productivity hold in the years before the export start, which indicates self-selection into exporting of more …This study reports results from an empirical investigation of business services sector firms that (start to) export … relationship between profitability and starting to export is found …

document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the … systematically by testing for self-selection of more productive firms into importing, and for productivity-enhancing effects of … imports ('learning-by-importing'). We find a positive link between importing and productivity. From an empirical model with …

plants that start to export. We show that the exporter wage premium does already exist in the years before firms start to … export, and that it does not increase in the following years. Higher wages in exporting firms are thus due to self …-selection of more productive, better paying firms into export markets; they are not caused by export activities …

productive than firms that only sell on the national market. This positive exporter productivity premium shows up in a large … firm fixed effects. These studies test for a difference in productivity between exporters and non-exporters at the … conditional mean of the productivity distribution. However, if firms are heterogeneous, it is possible that the size of the …

status and the growth of its labour productivity, using the firms' export status as a binary treatment variable and comparing …'s export-sales ratio and its labour productivity growth rate. We find that there is a causal effect of firms' export activities … the other hand, previous empirical studies show that exporting does not necessarily improve productivity. One possible …