We use the unique recently released German business services statistics panel to conduct the first comprehensive …, when observed firm characteristics and unobserved firm specific effects are controlled for. We find that export-starters in … services are less profitable than non-starters, even two years before they begin to export, pointing to self-selection of less …

provides first evidence about export and productivity in the German business services sector. The database used is the German …A wide range of empirical studies has analysed the relationship between exports and productivity in the manufacturing … turnover tax statistics panel, which allows for the first time a detailed longitudinal analyses of exporting business services …

estimator is applied. -- Exporter productivity premium ; services firms ; robust estimation ; panel data … sell their products on the home market only. This so-called exporter productivity premium qualifies as a stylized fact … extreme values drive the result. The large exporter productivity premium found for samples of firms including outliers are …

evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct investment (fdi) in services firms from a highly … taking differences along the conditional productivity distribution and firms with extreme values, or outliers, into account …) indicate that the productivity pecking order found in numerous studies using data for firms from manufacturing industries …

evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct investment (fdi) in services firms from a highly … taking differences along the conditional productivity distribution and firms with extreme values, or outliers, into account …) indicate that the productivity pecking order found in numerous studies using data for firms from manufacturing industries …

2011) in a model that explains the decision of heterogeneous firms to export and to engage in R&D. Using a non …-parametric test for first order stochastic dominance it is shown that, in line with this hypothesis, the productivity distribution of … export nor engage in R&D. These results are in line with findings for firms from manufacturing industries. The model …

evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct investment (fdi) in services firms from a highly … taking differences along the conditional productivity distribution and firms with extreme values, or outliers, into account …) indicate that the productivity pecking order found in numerous studies using data for firms from manufacturing industries …

heterogeneity within countries. We find that the weak export growth of France is at least partly due to poor performance by small …. Our results highlight the importance of firm heterogeneity in understanding aggregate export growth. …

heterogeneity within countries. We find that the weak export growth of France is at least partly due to poor performance by small …. Our results highlight the importance of firm heterogeneity in understanding aggregate export growth. …