innovativeness and consequently competitiveness and profitability. Such business ventures, however, might be associated with huge … international R&D activities boost profitability. We employ a large data set of about 1300 firms from the German Community … Innovation Survey (CIS). The empirical results demonstrate that R&D location matters for profitability. Firms with both domestic …

countries imported from) and firm profitability. While both extensive margins are highly positively linked with firm …

the profitability of the exporting firms on the other hand. We find that profits tend to be larger in firms with less …

age and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … correlation of age on firms' profitability. Moreover, our micro-econometric analysis reveals for the first time that the ceteris … level of profitability in these firms. …

profitability and the quality of exports in enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany, one of the leading actors on the …