We use newly available representative panel data for manufacturing enterprises in West and East Germany to investigate the link between production-related subsidies and exports. We document that only a small fraction of enterprises is subsidized, and that exports and subsidies are positively...

This paper uses a newly available comprehensive panel data set for manufacturing enterprises from 2001 to 2005 to document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the world market for goods. Furthermore, for the first time...

Anschließend an die breite Literatur zur Untersuchung von Produktivitätsdifferentialen zwischen international aktiven und nicht international aktiven Unternehmen liefert der vorliegende Beitrag erstmals Ergebnisse für Deutschland die sowohl Export- als auch Importaktivitäten...

We use the unique recently released German business services statistics panel to conduct the first comprehensive empirical study on the relationship between exports and profitability for the business services sector. We document a negative profitability differential of services exporters...

We use newly available representative panel data for manufacturing enterprises in West and East Germany to investigate the link between production-related subsidies and exports. We document that only a small fraction of enterprises is subsidized, and that exports and subsidies are positively...

Dieser Beitrag nutzt das neu im Forschungsdatenzentrum der Statistischen Ämter verfügbare Umsatzsteuerstatistik-Panel mit Daten aus den Jahren 2001 bis 2005 für eine erste Untersuchung der Import- und Exportaktivitäten niedersächsischer Industrieunternehmen im Vergleich zu Unternehmen aus...

We use newly available representative panel data for manufacturing enterprises in West and East Germany to investigate the link between production-related subsidies and exports. We document that only a small fraction of enterprises is subsidized, and that exports and subsidies are positively...

This study reports results from an empirical investigation of business services sector firms that (start to) export, comparing exporters to firms that serve the national market only. We estimate identically specified empirical models using comparable enterprise level data from France, Germany,...