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 …

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

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

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

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. …

This paper documents the relationship between firm survival and three types of international trade activities - exports …, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from Germany, one of the … imports and two-way trading for firm survival in a highly developed country. Descriptive statistics and regression analysis …