Germany, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and profitability. It …. -- Exports ; profitability ; micro data ; Germany …

Using OLS and quantile regression methods and rich cross-section data sets for western and eastern Germany, this paper …

document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the … for trading internationally are about the same in West and East Germany. Compared to firms that do not trade at all two …-by-importing. -- Imports ; exports ; productivity ; enterprise panel data ; Germany …

performance indicators, productivity and profitability. -- One -third co-determination ; firm performance ; Germany …

presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on …. Results for West Germany support the hypothesis that the productivity differential between exporters and nonexporters is at … time continue to export. -- Exports ; productivity ; micro data ; Germany …

Exports, micro data, West Germany, East Germany …

paper replicates the study using unique newly available panel data sets for all manufacturing plants from Germany (1995 …