Germany, one of the leading actors on the world market for goods, that merge information from surveys performed by the …

the micro-structure of the recent export collapse in manufacturing industries in Germany during the crisis of 2008 …/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 …

We use newly available representative panel data for manufacturing enterprises in West and East Germany to investigate … subsidies on export activities we find no impact of subsidies on the probability to start exporting, and only weak evidence for … an impact of subsidies on the share of exports in total sales in West Germany but no evidence in East Germany …

policy makers in an evidence based way. This holds true especially for Germany, a leading actor on the world markets for … between firm characteristics and export activities, demonstrating the decisive role of human capital intensity for exporting …

This paper investigates four cohorts of firms from German manufacturing industries that started to export in the years … between 1998 and 2002 and follows them over the five years after the start. Export starters are a rare species and they are … contributed by export starters of a cohort is tiny in the start year, and it remains so over the years to follow, although those …

manufacturing enterprises in Germany, one of the leading actors in the world market for goods. We show that the premium decreases …

-econometric studies for 16 different countries on the relationship between export destination and firm performance. (2) It reports … share of outliers. Using a "clean" sample without outliers the estimated productivity premium of firms that export to the … Euro-zone only is no longer much smaller that the premium of firms that export beyond the Euro-zone, too, and the premium …

Germany, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and profitability. It …-selection of more profitable firms into export markets. Due to the sampling frame of the data used we cannot test the hypothesis … the whole range of the export-sales ratio. Only firms that generate 90 percent and more of their total sales abroad do not …

workforce sheds new light on the role of highly qualified employees for success on export markets that is not revealed by the …