This study presents the first empirical test with German establishment level data of a hypothesis derived by Helpman et al. (2004) in a model that explains the decision of heterogeneous firms to serve foreign markets either through exports of foreign direct investment: only the more productive...

This paper presents the first empirical test with German establishment level data of a hypothesis derived by Helpman, Melitz and Yeaple in a model that explains the decision of heterogeneous firms to serve foreign markets either trough exports or foreign direct investment: only the more...

Bis heute weisen die westdeutschen Bundesländer persistente Unterschiede in ihrem Lebensstandard und ihrer Produktivität auf. Die Arbeit untersucht, ob es im Zeitraum von 1950 bis 1990 zu einer Konvergenz der Einkommens- und Produktivitätsniveaus zwischen den westdeutschen Bundesländern...