margins of exports empirically for the first time for Germany. Results turn out to be fully in line with the theoretical … considerations. Older firms are more often exporters, export more and more different goods to more different destination countries …, and export to more distant destination markets. …

profitability and the quality of exports in enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany, one of the leading actors on the …

whether export premia and self-selection into export markets exist in the business services sector. To ensure the … transferred to investigate the business services. -- Export premia ; self-selection into export markets ; business services …

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. -- Exports ; foreign direct investments …

-specific characteristics such as size, productivity, human capital, experience on the national market in Germany, etc. on the firms' export …The determinants of export behaviour at firm level have been widely investigated for manufacturing companies. By …, international trade in services has grown significantly over the last few years. However, it is unclear why some companies export …

export market. -- Export starters ; post-entry performance ; Germany, enterprise panel data …This paper investigates four cohorts of firms from German manufacturing industries that started to export in the years … between 1998 and 2002 and follows them over the five years after the start. Export starters are a rare species and they are …

-econometric studies for 16 different countries on the relationship between export destination and firm performance. (2) It reports … share of outliers. Using a “clean” sample without outliers the estimated productivity premium of firms that export to the … Euro-zone only is no longer much smaller that the premium of firms that export beyond the Euro-zone, too, and the premium …

service enterprises in Germany's eastern border region. Our results from regression adjusted difference …