presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on … the world market for manufactured goods. It applies and extends the now standard approach from the international … into export markets is found. There is no evidence for the hypothesis that plants which start to export perform better in …

Germany, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and profitability. It … to nearly all empirical studies on the relationship between productivity and exports we do not find any evidence for … selfselection of more profitable firms into export markets. Due to the sampling frame of the data used we cannot test the hypothesis …

export (i.e. at the so-called intensive margin) while the increase of exports due to export starters (at the so … the micro-structure of the recent export recovery in 2010 in manufacturing industries in Germany after the great recession … of 2008/2009. Almost all of the increase in exports was due to positive changes of exports in firms that continue to …

) in a model that explains the decision of heterogeneous firms to export and to engage in R&D. Using a non-parametric test … firms with exports and R&D dominates that of exporters without R&D, which in turn dominates that of firms that neither … export nor engage in R&D. These results are in line with findings for Argentina. The model, therefore, seems to be useful to …

In Germany, for the reporting year 2009 transaction-level data on exports and imports of goods have been aggregated at …

This paper documents the relationship between firm survival and three types of international trade activities - exports … leading actors on the world market for goods, that merge information from surveys performed by the Statistical Offices and …

policy makers in an evidence based way. This holds true especially for Germany, a leading actor on the world markets for … assessment of 51 empirical studies on exports and firm characteristics that use data for German establishments or enterprises … between firm characteristics and export activities, demonstrating the decisive role of human capital intensity for exporting …

used to observe their impact on the decision to locate innovation activities in various countries and regions (China …&D cooperation. -- Internationalisation of R&D ; Innovation ; Absorptive Capacities ; Market Structure ; China ; Asia ; Emerging …

concerning more efficient fossil fuel combustion and explores the potentials for lead markets for these technologies in China … in terms of supply factors, China in terms of price, demand and regulation advantage. This supports the hypothesis that … price and demand advantage – are shifting to China. China is practicing a leapfrogging strategy, and has already become a …