government can reshape industry structure through production subsidies to enhance export performance has not been answered. This … paper analyses the impact of production subsidies on firms' export performance using a very comprehensive and recent firm … level database and controlling for the endogeneity of subsidies. It documents robust evidence that production subsidies …

the link between production-related subsidies and exports. We document that only a small fraction of enterprises is … subsidized, and that exports and subsidies are positively related. Using a matching approach to investigate the causal effect of … subsidies on export activities we find no impact of subsidies on the probability to start exporting, and only weak evidence for …

We investigate whether government subsidies to local input manufacturers encourage procurement from foreign firms. We …

Subsidies granted by the German federal government decreased in the 1998–2004 period. Since 2005, subsidies have … increased. The transfers to the compulsory health insurance system were raised by very large amounts. Moreover, the subsidies … for re-integrating the unemployed were raised. The results are based on a comprehensive definition of subsidies; tax …

competitive. We implement an approach that allows for the joint estimation of direct and indirect effects of subsidies on … subsidized and non-subsidized firms. We find that firms that receive subsidies experience a boost for productivity. However, our … where other firms are subsidized. These negative externalities depend on the share of firms that receive subsidies in the …

The extent and the structure of subsidies (including tax concessions) in the Federal Republic of Germany are analyzed …. Subsidies per unit value added increased significantly after German reunification and declined only moderately in 1995 …. Nevertheless, the subsidies (comprehensively defined) reached roughly 8.6 p.c. of GDP. …