in manufacturing firms from East Germany and West Germany. It documents that these margins do still differ in 2010, 20 … years after the re-unification of Germany. West German firms outperform East German firms at all four margins of exports … - they have a larger propensity to export, export a larger share of total sales, export more goods and export to a larger …

in Germany. This paper uses enterprise level panel data for France, Germany and the United Kingdom from 2003 to 2008 to … firms that start or stop to export over the period under investigation, and that are not representative for the bulk of … firms that either export or not. …

, in order to gain more insight into how exports are affected. A panel regression of an export demand function is estimated … direction of improving institutional deficiencies has contributed, among other factors, to the observed post-crisis export …

This paper studies the relationship between export activities and firm-level productivity. Unique matching of German … existing studies, both directions hold: more productive firms self-select themselves into export markets and being active in …

This paper studies the relationship between export activities and firm-level productivity. Unique matching of German … existing studies, both directions hold: more productive firms self-select themselves into export markets and being active in …

reason for this result is that most previous studies are restricted to analysing the relationship between a firm's export … status and the growth of its labour productivity, using the firms' export status as a binary treatment variable and comparing … score (GPS) methodology that allows for continuous treatment, that is, different levels of the firms' export activities …

difference in the propensity to export between West and East German plants is to a large part due to differences in firm size and …

presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on … into export markets is found. There is no evidence for the hypothesis that plants which start to export perform better in …. Results for West Germany support the hypothesis that the productivity differential between exporters and non-exporters is at …

reason for this result is that most previous studies are restricted to analysing the relationship between a firm's export … status and the growth of its labour productivity, using the firms' export status as a binary treatment variable and comparing … score (GPS) methodology that allows for continuous treatment, that is, different levels of the firms' export activities …