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

entrants, in total exports and imports) in destination countries of exports and countries of origin of imports on the one hand …

the frequency at which German exporters and importers trade a given good with a given country. Imports and exports show a …

This paper contributes to the literature by using newly released comprehensive transaction level data on all exports … and imports to document facts about the amount of intra-good trade - the simultaneous export and import of identical goods …

that in German manufacturing industries the profitability of a firm increases when the number of markets a firm exports to … or imports from increases. The extra costs associated with being active on more foreign markets tend to be smaller than …

document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the … imports (learning-by-importing). We find a positive link between importing and productivity. From an empirical model with … productive enterprises into imports, but no evidence for positive effects of importing on productivity due to learning-by-importing. …

, the share of exports in total sales, the number of countries exported to, and the participation in import. The big picture …