evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct investment (fdi) in services firms from a highly … 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. …

policy makers in an evidence based way. This holds true especially for Germany, a leading actor on the world markets for … assessment of 51 empirical studies on exports and firm characteristics that use data for German establishments or enterprises … between firm characteristics and export activities, demonstrating the decisive role of human capital intensity for exporting …

This paper documents the relationship between firm survival and three types of international trade activities - exports … leading actors on the world market for goods, that merge information from surveys performed by the Statistical Offices and …

In "new" new international trade theory, whether firms export or not are determined by their productivity. These models … an alternative way to model whether firms export or not, namely as a firm-level decision akin to an investment decision … with a real option value. We show that endogenizing the export decision is consistent with patterns of productivity and …

/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 … the micro-structure of the recent export collapse in manufacturing industries in Germany during the crisis of 2008 …

sectors. We find the differences in the short and long-run wage and employment responses to changes in export to be explained …

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. …

world market for goods. Furthermore, for the first time the direction of causality in this relationship is investigated …-way traders do have the highest premia, followed by firms that only export, while firms that only import have the smallest …

Germany, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and profitability. It … 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 …