first comprehensive evidence on the relationship bet-ween productivity and size of the export market for Germany, a leading … more productive than firms that sell their products in Ger-many only, but less productive than firms that export to …

presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on …. Results for West Germany support the hypothesis that the productivity differential between exporters and non-exporters is at …

Since the beginning of the transformation of East Germany from a socialist planned economy to a market economy, there …, and political problems of East Germany, thereby narrowing the gap between East and West Germany. This paper uses panel … West Germany observed during the first years after reunification has not been maintained. In short, some East German …

industries. The study is based on a new data source on subsidized R&D cooperation in Germany, which is presented in detail and …

entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2011, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socio … increase in self-employment in Germany by 40 percent which can partly be attributed to the transformation process of East … Germany and to the shift to the service sector. We notice a yearly start-up rate of 1 percent among the working population …