. For this purpose, we employ administrative panel data on 28,600 manufacturing firms from German Statistical Offices …

This paper analyses the relationship between firm productivity and export behavior in German manufacturing firms. We … productivity to entering foreign markets, as postulated by the recent literature on international trade with heterogeneous firms …. Moreover, we apply a matching technique in order to analyze whether the presence in international markets enabled firms to …

patterns of firms within the same sector. Helpman, Melitz and Yeaple (2005) develop a model in which innate productivity … differences between firms determine the degree of international engagement of firms: The least productive firms produce for the … domestic market, better performers engage in export activities, and the top firms establish foreign subsidiaries. Using German …

This paper investigates the evolution of aggregate productivity and markups among French manufacturing firms between … productivity growth, while I measure persistent reallocation of sales shares from lower to higher markup firms. Policy relevant …

This paper analyses the relationship between firm productivity and export behavior in German manufacturing firms. We … productivity to entering foreign markets, as postulated by the recent literature on international trade with heterogeneous firms …. Moreover, we apply a matching technique in order to analyze whether the presence in international markets enabled firms to …

patterns of firms within the same sector. Helpman, Melitz and Yeaple (2005) develop a model in which innate productivity … differences between firms determine the degree of international engagement of firms: The least productive firms produce for the … domestic market, better performers engage in export activities, and the top firms establish foreign subsidiaries. Using German …

manufacturing and service firms regarding process innovations were found. Finally, from a cross country perspective the results for …

effect is independent of the novelty degree. Moreover, different employment effects between manufacturing and service firms … activities, this paper reports new results on the relationship between innovation and employment growth in manufacturing and … service firms in Germany. The model is tailor-made for analysing firm-level employment effects of innovations using specific …

manufacturing productivity growth. There is no strong evidence in the literature on the existence of such link. Our work, however … analysis is based on larger and more representative samples of firms including small firms. Finally, an econometric framework …