In this paper we analyse the relationship between export and innovation activities of German service sector companies … Schumpeterian hypothesis of export activities being mainly driven by innovation activities. Factor endowment theories are only … partially supported. While human capital significantly improves export performance, labour costs hamper it only in selected …

Germany, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and profitability. It … to nearly all empirical studies on the relationship between productivity and exports we do not find any evidence for … selfselection of more profitable firms into export markets. Due to the sampling frame of the data used we cannot test the hypothesis …

This paper analyses the relationship between firm productivity and export behavior in German manufacturing firms. We …. In estimating productivity, we control for a possible simultaneity bias by using semiparametric estimation techniques …-productivity firms self-select themselves into export markets, while exporting itself does not play a significant role for productivity …

domestic market, better performers engage in export activities, and the top firms establish foreign subsidiaries. Using German …

Germany, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and profitability. It … to nearly all empirical studies on the relationship between productivity and exports we do not find any evidence for … selfselection of more profitable firms into export markets. Due to the sampling frame of the data used we cannot test the hypothesis …

determinant for the export performance of firms. Does this mean that intense local user-producer interaction always leads to … exports? In contrast to this reasoning international marketing studies stress the problem of responsiveness to local … export effective. We investigate data from the ZEW Innovation survey of 4,786 firms in the manufacturing and service …

in their expectations that the Euro will increase export activity and product innovation, but significantly more East … entering new markets and developing new products is stronger for firms which already export than for those who do not. Further …

This paper investigates the impact of energy policies on the export performance of firms. There has been a long policy …-level data from three countries with similar industry structure but different energy policies: Germany, Switzerland, and Austria … technologies. Regression analyses and matching approaches both show very few impacts of energy policy on export performance …

export market sales. As a result, exporting firms have a higher payoff from R&D investment, invest in R&D more frequently … differ in their export market exposure. Simulating the introduction of trade tariffs we find a substantial reduction in firms …

in their expectations that the Euro will increase export activity and product innovation, but significantly more East … entering new markets and developing new products is stronger for firms which already export than for those who do not. Further …