evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct investment (fdi) in services firms from a highly … developed country. It uses unique new data from Germany - one of the leading actors on the world market for services - that … is evidence that firms with fdi are less productive than firms that export. …

between inequality and growth in the post World War II period using WIDER inequality database. Regression results suggest that …

-way traders do have the highest premia, followed by firms that only export, while firms that only import have the smallest …This paper uses a newly available comprehensive panel data set for manufacturing enterprises from 2001 to 2005 to … document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the …

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 … leading actors on the world market for goods, that merge information from surveys performed by the Statistical Offices and …

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 …

consider a simple model in which the technology shifters are aggregated into one single index. The empirical model uses panel …

Governments the world over offer significant inducements to attract inward investment, motivated by the expectation of … productivity, wages and exports spillovers in developing, developed and transitional economies. Although theory can identify a …

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 … subsidized, and that exports and subsidies are positively related. Using a matching approach to investigate the causal effect of …