largest firms are important for an understanding of aggregate volatility in German manufacturing industries. The implications …

/2009. Almost all of the decline in exports was due to negative changes of exports in firms that continue to export (i.e. at the so …-called intensive margin) while the decrease of exports due to export stoppers (at the so-called extensive margin) was tiny. It is shown …

assessment of 51 empirical studies on exports and firm characteristics that use data for German establishments or enterprises …

evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct investment (fdi) in services firms from a highly …

This paper documents the relationship between firm survival and three types of international trade activities - exports …

activities – exports, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from …

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 … an impact of subsidies on the share of exports in total sales in West Germany but no evidence in East Germany …