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 firms outperform East German firms at all four margins of exports … - they have a larger propensity to export, export a larger share of total sales, export more goods and export to a larger …

in Germany. This paper uses enterprise level panel data for France, Germany and the United Kingdom from 2003 to 2008 to … firms that start or stop to export over the period under investigation, and that are not representative for the bulk of … firms that either export or not. …

The lack of information is a relevant obstacle to the export activity of small and medium enterprises. This paper … analyzes whether banks can support firms' export by reducing informational asymmetries about foreign markets. We exploit a … exogenous to firms' export decisions by relying on preexisting lending relationships and exploiting the acquisition of a firm …

This paper studies the relationship between export activities and firm-level productivity. Unique matching of German … existing studies, both directions hold: more productive firms self-select themselves into export markets and being active in …

This paper studies the relationship between export activities and firm-level productivity. Unique matching of German … existing studies, both directions hold: more productive firms self-select themselves into export markets and being active in …

This paper estimates the exporter premium in bank lending. We examine credit relationships in Germany, covering all …

Exports , wages , exporter wage premium , linked employer-employee data , Germany … same industry and region. This paper uses a large set of linked employer-employee data from Germany to analyze this …-collar) employees working in a plant with an export-sales ratio of 60 percent earn about 1.8 (0.9) percent more than similar employees …

Export-sales ratio , labour productivity , continuous treatment , dose-response function … reason for this result is that most previous studies are restricted to analysing the relationship between a firm's export … status and the growth of its labour productivity, using the firms' export status as a binary treatment variable and comparing …

time continue to export. -- Exports ; productivity ; micro data ; Germany … presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on … into export markets is found. There is no evidence for the hypothesis that plants which start to export perform better in …

manufacturing firms. First, there is a negative correlation between firms' productivity and their export share to low …-income destinations. Second, there is a negative correlation between firms' innovation activity and their export share to low …