determinant for the export performance of firms. Does this mean that intense local user-producer interaction always leads to … export effective. We investigate data from the ZEW Innovation survey of 4,786 firms in the manufacturing and service … the export orientation of the domestic market of innovators such as and the degree of competition stimulate export success …

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. …

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 …

We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and the East - China and Eastern Europe - in … and export exposure. We find that the rise of the East in the world economy caused substantial job losses in German … regions specialized in import-competing industries, both in manufacturing and beyond. Regions specialized in export …

It is sometimes claimed that the coverage of collective bargaining in Germany is considerably understated because of …