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contribute to this line of research by providing industry-specific evidence for German manufacturing industries, based on … employees (2005{2013). We compare firm-specific markups and industry concentration as market power indicators and discuss the …
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The World Bank’s Enterprise Surveys (WES( for the manufacturing firms in Egypt are used to study the characteristics of exporting firms and the determinants of the exporting behavior in the Egyptian manufacturing sector in general and to investigate the link between the exporting activities...
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This paper provides the first empirical evidence on the link between the number of foreign markets (where a market is defined as the combination of one traded good and one country traded with) a firm is active on and its profitability. We find that in German manufacturing industries the...
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as a combination of a good traded and a country traded with. Using merged information from trade transactions and from … surveys conducted by the statistical offices it is shown that, controlling for detailed industry affiliation, the number of … larger, older and foreign owned and that have higher labor productivity, human capital intensity and R&D intensity. With the …
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industry affiliation. …
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This paper uses a new tailor-made data set to investigate the differences in extensive and intensive margins of exports in manufacturing firms from East Germany and West Germany. It documents that these margins do still differ in 2010, 20 years after the re-unification of Germany. West German...
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This paper uses a unique newly constructed data set to investigate for the first time the link between credit constraints and the extensive margins of exports in Germany, one of the leading actors on the international market for goods. In line with theoretical considerations and comparable...
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We use the World Bank enterprise survey for the Egyptian manufacturing sector to study the correlation between the ownership structure (private vs. public, Egyptian vs. Arab foreign vs. non-Arab foreign) and firm performance, which we measure as sales per worker, capacity utilization, and net...
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fixed enterprise effects that controls for firm size, industry, and unobservable firm heterogeneity we see that the premia … for trading internationally are about the same in West and East Germany. Compared to firms that do not trade at all two …
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In jüngster Zeit ist ein zunehmendes Interesse an der modelltheoretischen und empirischen Analyse von Mehrproduktunternehmen zu verzeichnen. Mit einem neu verfügbaren repräsentativen Längsschnittdatensatz für 1995 bis 2004 dokumentiert die vorliegende Studie erstmals umfassend für deutsche...
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