Germany is one of the leading actors on the world market for manufactured goods, but not every firm from a … manufacturing industry in Germany is an exporter. In 2006, the share of exporters in all enterprises was 69 percent in West Germany … and 52 percent in East Germany. Reliable information on the characteristics of exporting and non-exporting firms is …

and policy-makers with evidence-based guidance. This holds true especially for Germany, a leading actor on the world … markets for goods and services. This paper provides a synopsis and a critical assessment of 51 empirical studies on exports … model the share of exports in total sales and the missing control for unobserved firm heterogeneity. …

profitability and the quality of exports in enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany, one of the leading actors on the …

of input factors and the quality of exports in enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany, one of the leading …

’s exports and the distance to destination countries for Germany. To anticipate the most important result, it is shown that the …

This paper uses a tailor-made newly available data set for enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany to …

margins of exports empirically for the first time for Germany. Results turn out to be fully in line with the theoretical …

the micro-structure of the recent export collapse in manufacturing industries in Germany during the crisis of 2008 …/2009. Almost all of the decline in exports was due to negative changes of exports in firms that continue to export (i.e. at the so …-called intensive margin) while the decrease of exports due to export stoppers (at the so-called extensive margin) was tiny. It is shown …

the micro-structure of the recent export collapse in manufacturing industries in Germany during the crisis of 2008 …/2009. Almost all of the decline in exports was due to negative changes of exports in firms that continue to export (i.e. at the so …-called intensive margin) while the decrease of exports due to export stoppers (at the so-called extensive margin) was tiny. It is shown …

comparable enterprise level data from France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Exporters are more productive and pay higher wages … significantly smaller in Germany, significantly larger in France, and does not differ significantly in the UK. The results for wages …