A wide range of empirical studies has analysed the relationship between exports and productivity in the manufacturing … provides first evidence about export and productivity in the German business services sector. The database used is the German … exporting increases productivity. …

This paper contributes to the flourishing literature on exports and productivity by using a unique newly available …

This paper contributes to the flourishing literature on exports and productivity by using a unique newly available …

the basic conditions of natural monopoly theory and to review the approaches and results of the studies dealing with this …

-parametric test for first order stochastic dominance it is shown that, in line with this hypothesis, the productivity distribution of …, therefore, seems to be useful to guide empirical work on the relation between exports, R&D and productivity for services firms …

evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct investment (fdi) in services firms from a highly … taking differences along the conditional productivity distribution and firms with extreme values, or outliers, into account …) indicate that the productivity pecking order found in numerous studies using data for firms from manufacturing industries …