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 …

This paper documents the relationship between firm survival and three types of international trade activities - exports …, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from Germany, one of the …

an impact of subsidies on the share of exports in total sales in West Germany but no evidence in East Germany …We use newly available representative panel data for manufacturing enterprises in West and East Germany to investigate … the link between production-related subsidies and exports. We document that only a small fraction of enterprises is …

. -- Credit constraints ; exports ; Germany …This study uses newly available enterprise level data for firms from manufacturing industries in Germany to test for …, and exports. In line with hypotheses from theoretical model we find a positive link between a better credit rating score …

activities - exports, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from … Germany, one of the leading actors on the world market for goods, that merge information from surveys performed by the … advantages of trading firms are eaten up by extra costs related to selling and buying on foreign markets. -- Exports ; imports …

exports and take this model to data from Germany, one of the leading actors on the world market for goods. In line with …We examine how foreign ownership of a firm affects the variety of goods that the firm exports and the number of …

firm heterogeneity in shaping aggregate service exports in Belgium, France, Germany and Spain from 2003 to 2007. We … exporters. By contrast, small exporters are the most dynamic contributors to the aggregate exports of Belgium, Germany and Spain …This paper uses detailed micro data on service exports at the firm-destination-service level to analyse the role of …

destination countries for export scope, where export scope is defined as the number of different products a firm exports to a … destination countries are related to differences in the distance between Germany and the countries of destination, differences in …