This study analyses empirically the effects of import competition on firm productivity (TFPQ) using administrative firm … positive incentives for firms to invest in productivity improvement, whereas import competition from middle- and low …. Costly investment in productivity appears feasible reaction to such type of competition and we find no evidence for …

This study analyzes empirically the effects of import competition on firm productivity (TFPQ) using administrative firm … positive incentives for firms to invest in productivity improvement, whereas import competition from middle- and low …. Costly investment in productivity appears feasible reaction to such type of competition and we find no evidence for …

This paper studies the relationship between export activities and firm-level productivity. Unique matching of German … a rise in firm-level productivity. That is, the annual average growth rate of an exporting firm's productivity is … foreign markets boosts firm-level productivity. …

This paper studies the relationship between export activities and firm-level productivity. Unique matching of German … a rise in firm-level productivity. That is, the annual average growth rate of an exporting firm's productivity is … foreign markets boosts firm-level productivity. …

This paper examines the causal relationship between productivity and exporting in German manufacturing. We find a … causal link from high productivity to presence in foreign markets, as postulated by a recent literature on international … markets enables firms to achieve further productivity improvements, without finding significant evidence for this. We conclude …

European productivity shock. e focus lies on the national and county level (including 402 counties). As the e ects on regional … that the "Hartz IV-Reform" and the German productivity contributes positively to the decline of unemployment, whereas the … increase in Eastern European productivity is only responsible for a minor increase in unemployment. …

-exporters. However, many firms from the lower end of the productivity distribution are exporters. Germany is a case in point. A recent … study reports that these low-productivity exporters are not marginal exporters defined according to the share of exports in … exports is much higher among exporters from the lower end of the productivity distribution than among highly productive …

I study the causal effect of the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) on the productivity of German …. This approach allows for an endogenous dynamic productivity process and corrects for simultaneous changes in input use or … productivity after a firm is regulated by the EU ETS. After estimating the firm specific productivity, I employ a difference …