This paper investigates the sources of total factor productivity growth in the German manufacturing sector, 1981 …

Female-run firms are less likely to be exporters although they exert positive influence in various aspects in an … economy and society. With a new and comprehensive data set on manufacturing plants, I investigate the exporter productivity … premium of female-run firms in Germany. The results show that female-run firms gain a higher exporter-productivity premium …

than 400,000 Czech firm/years we study whether firms fully utilize their resources, how firm financial efficiency evolves …

Europe. We find that (i) larger firms are less efficient than smaller firms, (ii) greater leverage contributes to corporate … opposite is true when minority shareholders hold a substantial fraction of the firmś equity. In the analysis, we distinguish …

Using quantile regression and a rich cross section data set for German manufacturing plants this paper documents that …

line with the fact that many small firms are 'hidden export champions'. …

roughly 75% of the total turnover of the west German manufacturing sector. The sample used for estimation contains 6,745 firms …The impact of uncertainty on firms' investment outlays is subject to an ongoing debate. Theory identifies several … investment likely. On the other hand, the ability of firms to adapt after uncertainty is resolved can make a risky strategy more …

patterns of firms within the same sector. Helpman, Melitz and Yeaple (2005) develop a model in which innate productivity … differences between firms determine the degree of international engagement of firms: The least productive firms produce for the … domestic market, better performers engage in export activities, and the top firms establish foreign subsidiaries. Using German …

exporting firms are higher than in non-exporting firms from the same industry and region. The existence of these so …

This paper analyses the relationship between firm productivity and export behavior in German manufacturing firms. We … productivity to entering foreign markets, as postulated by the recent literature on international trade with heterogeneous firms …. Moreover, we apply a matching technique in order to analyze whether the presence in international markets enabled firms to …