This paper uses an unbalanced panel data set for exporting firms from manufacturing industries in one German Federal state, Lower Saxony, to investigate the microstructure of the recent export boom. Looking at data for 1995/96 - 2001/2002 it is demonstrated that a considerable number of plants...

This paper starts from the stylized fact that firm size and exporting tends to be positively related. Using large sets of establishment panel data for three different industries from official statistics, evidence is presented that the familiar picture of an export/sales ratio that increases (at...