degree of pass-through of exchange rate fluctuations in the pricing of 70 export items. The model is estimated using panel … data on export unit values. Parameter estimation relies on GMM first difference, fixed effects, LAD, OLS first difference …

In this paper we analyse the relationship between export and innovation activities of German service sector companies … Schumpeterian hypothesis of export activities being mainly driven by innovation activities. Factor endowment theories are only … partially supported. While human capital significantly improves export performance, labour costs hamper it only in selected …

This paper investigates the impact of energy policies on the export performance of firms. There has been a long policy …-level data from three countries with similar industry structure but different energy policies: Germany, Switzerland, and Austria …, subsidies and demand stimulation) for their firm operation and link data on the adoption and development of new energy …

export market sales. As a result, exporting firms have a higher payoff from R&D investment, invest in R&D more frequently … differ in their export market exposure. Simulating the introduction of trade tariffs we find a substantial reduction in firms …

domestic market, better performers engage in export activities, and the top firms establish foreign subsidiaries. Using German …

evidence of state dependence in the current export status of firms. Unobserved permanent firm heterogeneity ("spurious state …

sourcing of inputs. Using firm-level data from Germany in 2009, which include mainly small and medium-sized firms, the …