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

presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on … into export mar-kets is found. There is no evidence for the hypothesis that plants which start to export perform better in …. Results for West Germany support the hypothesis that the productivity differential between exporters and non-exporters is at …

Since the beginning of the transformation of East Germany from a socialist planned economy to a market economy, there …, and political problems of East Germany, thereby narrowing the gap between East and West Germany. This paper uses panel … West Germany observed during the first years after reunification has not been maintained. In short, some East German …

industries. The study is based on a new data source on subsidized R&D cooperation in Germany, which is presented in detail and …

entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2011, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socio … increase in self-employment in Germany by 40 percent which can partly be attributed to the transformation process of East … Germany and to the shift to the service sector. We notice a yearly start-up rate of 1 percent among the working population …

panel of exporting establishments from the manufac-turing sector of Germany from 1995 to 2004 to test three hypotheses … productive than firms that continue to export in t. (H2) Firms that start to export in year t are less productive than firms that … export both in year t-1 and in year t. (H3) Firms from a cohort of export starters that still export in the last year of the …