differences. Arguably, this shortcoming is rooted in the lack of an appropriate MIMIC model which considers cointegration among … variables. This paper develops a MIMIC model which estimates the cointegration equilibrium relationship and the error correction …

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. …

workforce sheds new light on the role of highly qualified employees for success on export markets that is not revealed by the …

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 …

Folklore has it that the comparatively low proportion of self-employed in Germany is in part due to a habit that might …

representative sample of the German population. The empirical estimation takes the rare events nature of becoming a nascent …

empirical estimation takes the rare events nature of becoming a nascent entrepreneur and the regional stratification of the …