Using a large administrative dataset for Germany, this paper compares employment developments in exiting and surviving … establishments. For both West and East Germany we find a clear shadow of death effect reflecting lingering illness: establishments … are more clearly visible in West than in East Germany. Our results also hold when applying a matching approach. …

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

. Germany, one of the leading actors on the world market for goods, is a case in point. Theoretical models of multiple …

This study uses newly available enterprise level data for firms from manufacturing industries in Germany to test for …

Germany, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and profitability. It …

what is often argued, therefore, we find no evidence for a negative causal effect of offshoring on employment in Germany or …

manufacturing industries in Germany. We use unique newly available data that for the first time combine information from the …