paper reconsiders the relationship between the fraction of exports in total sales and firm characteristics in West and East … performance is found, while firm size is positively related to exporting in West Germany only. …

policy makers in an evidence based way. This holds true especially for Germany, a leading actor on the world markets for … assessment of 51 empirical studies on exports and firm characteristics that use data for German establishments or enterprises …

policy makers in an evidence based way. This holds true especially for Germany, a leading actor on the world markets for … assessment of 51 empirical studies on exports and firm characteristics that use data for German establishments or enterprises …

Germany is one of the leading actors on the world market for manufactured goods, but not every firm from a … manufacturing industry in Germany is an exporter. In 2006, the share of exporters in all enterprises was 69 percent in West Germany … and 52 percent in East Germany. Reliable information on the characteristics of exporting and non-exporting firms is …

policy makers in an evidence based way. This holds true especially for Germany, a leading actor on the world markets for … assessment of 51 empirical studies on exports and firm characteristics that use data for German establishments or enterprises …

policy makers in an evidence based way. This holds true especially for Germany, a leading actor on the world markets for … assessment of 51 empirical studies on exports and firm characteristics that use data for German establishments or enterprises …

and policy-makers with evidence-based guidance. This holds true especially for Germany, a leading actor on the world … markets for goods and services. This paper provides a synopsis and a critical assessment of 51 empirical studies on exports … model the share of exports in total sales and the missing control for unobserved firm heterogeneity. …

found between the share of exports to lowincome countries and either productivity or R&D intensity is never in line with the …

-exporters. However, many firms from the lower end of the productivity distribution are exporters. Germany is a case in point. A recent … study reports that these low-productivity exporters are not marginal exporters defined according to the share of exports in … exports is much higher among exporters from the lower end of the productivity distribution than among highly productive …

's exports and the distance to destination countries for Germany. To anticipate the most important result, it is shown that the …