Since the early 2000s German exports and net exports have grown persistently, generating huge current account surpluses … exports, the present paper econometrically investigates the determinants of German intra- and extra-EMU exports for the period … 1995 to 2014. The longterm relationship between real exports, foreign activity and the real effective exchange rate is …

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 …

production and exports structure towards specialization based on knowledge and innovation. Thus, in this paper, competitiveness … is evaluated through structural adjustments of exports, and for catching-up economies (the EU-10 states) it may be …: Germany). We analyse the evolution of the EU-10 nations’ exports specialization in the years 2000 and 2014, checking whether …

, 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 …