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...

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 study investigates business services firms that (start to) export, comparing exporters to firms that serve the national market only. We estimate identically specified empirical models using comparable enterprise data from France, Germany, and the UK. Our findings show that exporters are on...

Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht die Beschäftigungsentwicklung in der Region Hannover für den Zeitraum 1999 bis 2006 und stellt sie zwölf weiteren deutschen Verdichtungsräumen gegenüber. Unter Verwendung des Betriebs-Historik-Panels des Institutes für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung...

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,...