Im Zeitraum 2009 bis 2011 waren rd. 1,3 Mio. Unternehmen aus Deutschland, zu 99 % KMU, international aktiv. Damit … Unternehmen erwogen eine Ausweitung bereits bestehender Auslandsaktivitäten und gut 20% die erstmalige Aufnahme einer (Export … forms of internationalisation). Most widely spread are import- and export activities, followed by sales and service …

involved in export activities. In the total business population, the share of exporters increases in line with enterprise size … than every second SME with an annual turnover of more than 2 million EUR is engaged in the export business. Thereby, SMEs …

We use newly available representative panel data for manufacturing enterprises in West and East Germany to investigate … subsidies on export activities we find no impact of subsidies on the probability to start exporting, and only weak evidence for … an impact of subsidies on the share of exports in total sales in West Germany but no evidence in East Germany. …

new insights into the analysis of German export performance. Our panel dataset includes German exports to 176 countries …

for the latest export data from Germany and the Czech Republic. Results show that the model is very successful in … standard gravity models. In the proposed model (total) shares of export from a given country depend only on a gross domestic … explaining export shares with coefficients of determinacy 0.75 and 0.98 respectively. …

-selection of innovative services firms on export markets. We have to admit, however, that the panel is too short, and that the … number of firms that start to export and start to perform R&D during the period under investigation is too small, for any …

line, then, is that R&D activity does matter for success of German business services firms on export markets – but not much. …

line, then, is that R&D activity does matter for success of German business services firms on export markets – but not much. …

-selection of innovative services firms on export markets. We have to admit, however, that the panel is too short, and that the … number of firms that start to export and start to perform R&D during the period under investigation is too small, for any …

We use newly available representative panel data for manufacturing enterprises in West and East Germany to investigate … subsidies on export activities we find no impact of subsidies on the probability to start exporting, and only weak evidence for … an impact of subsidies on the share of exports in total sales in West Germany but no evidence in East Germany. …