While Germany has a very open, export-oriented manufacturing sector, to date there has been little or no research on … predate entry into the export market. We find no positive effects on employment, wage or productivity growth after entry. Our …

the micro-structure of the recent export collapse in manufacturing industries in Germany during the crisis of 2008 …/2009. Almost all of the decline in exports was due to negative changes of exports in firms that continue to export (i.e. at the so …-called intensive margin) while the decrease of exports due to export stoppers (at the so-called extensive margin) was tiny. It is shown …

the micro-structure of the recent export collapse in manufacturing industries in Germany during the crisis of 2008 …/2009. Almost all of the decline in exports was due to negative changes of exports in firms that continue to export (i.e. at the so …-called intensive margin) while the decrease of exports due to export stoppers (at the so-called extensive margin) was tiny. It is shown …

contribute to this line of research by providing industry-specific evidence for German manufacturing industries, based on … role of digitization. Our results do not suggest an overall average increase in market power in German manufacturing …

Using quantile regression and a rich cross section data set for German manufacturing plants this paper documents that … the impact of plant characteristics on export activities varies along the conditional size distribution of the export … status matters at the upper tail of the conditional distribution of the export/sales ratio only... …

into export markets is found. There is no evidence for the hypothesis that plants which start to export perform better in … least in part the result of a market driven selection process in which those export starters that have low productivity at … time continue to export. -- Exports ; productivity ; micro data ; Germany …