This paper investigates the sources of total factor productivity growth in the German manufacturing sector, 1981 …

manufacturing incumbent establishments. The perceived pressure of competition is stronger the higher the level of entries in the …

Analysing the relationship between firms' openness to external knowledge and their innovation performance is nothing … focus of this paper. Using unique micro-level innovation data, it is shown, as the existing literature suggests, that firms …. However, innovative firms that exploit external knowledge do not necessarily enjoy greater innovation benefits than those that …

1992): (H1) Firms that exit in year t were in t-1 less productive than firms that continue to produce in t. (H2) Firms that … enter in year t are less productive than incumbent firms in year t. (H3) Surviving firms from an entry cohort were more … productive than non-surviving firms from this cohort in the start year. Results for Spain support all three hypotheses. This …

. Using the GPS method and a large panel data set for German manufac-turing firms, we estimate the relationship between a firm …A recent survey of 54 micro-econometric studies reveals that exporting firms are more productive than non-exporters. On … status and the growth of its labour productivity, using the firms' export status as a binary treatment variable and comparing …

panel of exporting establishments from the manufac-turing sector of Germany from 1995 to 2004 to test three hypotheses … derived from a theoretical model by Hopenhayn (Econometrica 1992): (H1) Firms that stop exporting in year t were in t-1 less … productive than firms that continue to export in t. (H2) Firms that start to export in year t are less productive than firms that …

region's capacity to create new firms start-ups as the region's entrepreneurship capital. We then investigate the local …