a result, a country's ‘essential' competitiveness and export performance are leveraged in a currency union, when …

This article incorporates both the new trade and the endogenous growth theories to study the determinants of import … 1991 and 2010), we use an import demand equation to compare the relative product performances of France and Germany vis …), mark-up and distance as instrumental variables for import prices. We also proxy innovation and hence product quality using …

forms of internationalisation). Most widely spread are import- and export activities, followed by sales and service … Unternehmen erwogen eine Ausweitung bereits bestehender Auslandsaktivitäten und gut 20% die erstmalige Aufnahme einer (Export … and more than 20 % can generally imagine starting (export) activities for the first time. Economic policy can react to the …

von der Statistik als Exporteure ausgewiesen (Import: 17 %). Im Verarbeitenden Gewerbe liegt die Exporteurquote der KMU ….000 SMEs were exporters while 512.000 SMEs engaged in import activities. All in all, official statistics classify approx. 11 … involved in export activities. In the total business population, the share of exporters increases in line with enterprise size …

,000 SME export goods, but only 3,000 import goods or raw materials from this region. Despite the low purchasing power in most …