, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from Germany, one of 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 …

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

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 …

first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between productivity and size of the export market for Germany, a leading … actor on the world market for manufactured goods. It documents that firms that export to countries inside the euro-zone are … more productive than firms that sell their products in Germany only, but less productive than firms that export to …

Manufacturing accounts for more than three-quarters of U.S. corporate patents. The competitive shock to this sector … emanating from China's economic ascent could in theory either augment or stifle U.S. innovation. Using three decades of U …

matched firm-worker panel and a matched firm-transaction panel. Our data set follows the population of manufacturing firms and …

The German economy exhibits rising service and declining manufacturing employment. But this decline is much sharper in … import-competing than in export-oriented branches. We first document the individual-level job transitions behind those trends …. They are not driven by manufacturing workers who smoothly switch to services. The observed shifts are entirely due to young …

assessment of 51 empirical studies on exports and firm characteristics that use data for German establishments or enterprises … quality data for a large representative panel of enterprises from German manufacturing industries to investigate the links … between firm characteristics and export activities, demonstrating the decisive role of human capital intensity for exporting …

to nearly all empirical studies on the relationship between productivity and exports we do not find any evidence for self …-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 …