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 …

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 … theoretical predictions we find that foreign-owned firms do export more goods to more countries after controlling for firm size …

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 …

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 …

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

of input factors and the quality of exports in enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany, one of the leading …-quality goods tend to use high-quality inputs, while the firm size is not related at all to export quality. …

potentially heterogeneous effects of the different modes of export market entry. We study how productivity of firms is affected by … export entry simultaneously into several markets or export entry with several export products, and compare these to the entry … into fewer markets or the entry with fewer products. Our analysis is based on detailed export data from firms in Estonia …

This paper provides an estimation of the reaction of firm-level exports consecutive to real exchange rate movements … - the exchange rate elasticity of exports. Following recent theoretical works emphasizing the role played by firm … heterogeneous reaction of different firms may contribute to shape the aggregate reaction of countries' exports. The analysis relies …

: aggregate exports are disproportionally driven by few multi-buyers exporters; and each multi-buyer exporter's foreign sales of … buyers should vary across export destinations depending on their market size and accessibility. We show that these …

, policies aimed at increasing exports should concentrate their efforts on increasing the size of those firms with lower export … competitiveness. This paper re-examines the link between firm size and exports. The new theories of international trade emphasize firm … heterogeneity as the theoretical basis of export behavior. In the context of this heterogeneity, the paper uses the quantile …