A wide range of empirical studies has analysed exporter performance, especially the relationship between exports and productivity in the manufacturing sector. By contrast, a detailed investigation of the services sector has remained largely neglected. To close this gap, this paper focuses on the...

Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht die Export- und Importbeteiligung niedersächsischer Industrieunternehmen im Zeitraum 1999 bis 2006 und stellt sie der Entwicklung im übrigen Westdeutschland sowie in Ostdeutschland gegenüber. Unter Verwendung des Umsatzsteuerstatistikpanels ist es dabei...

Trotz der zunehmenden Bedeutung des internationalen Dienstleistungshandels und der besonderen Bedeutung des Dienstleistungsbereichs für die Volkswirtschaft ist über die Exporttätigkeit von Dienstleistern auf der Mikroebene nur wenig bekannt. Bisherige Erkenntnisse über den Zusammenhang...

A wide range of empirical studies has analysed the relationship between exports and productivity in the manufacturing sector. By contrast, a detailed investigation of the services sector has remained neglected. To close this gap, this paper provides first evidence about export and productivity...

This study uses newly available representative data from German business services firms and a continuous treatment approach based on the generalized propensity score to test for a causal effect of R&D activities (measured by the share of engineers and natural scientists in all employees) on the...

This paper contributes to the literature by providing the first evidence on the link between innovation activities (measured by the share of engineers and scientists in the workforce) and exports of German business services firms based on a large representative longitudinal sample of...

A large and growing number of micro-econometric studies show that exporting firms are more productive than firms that sell their products on the home market only. This so-called exporter productivity premium qualifies as a stylized fact. Only recently researchers started to look at the role of...

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...