German export performance

Export Entry, Export Exit, and Productivity in German Manufacturing Industries

This paper contributes to the flourishing literature on exports and productivity by using a unique newly available panel of exporting establishments from the manufacturing sector of Germany from 1995 to 2004 to test three hypotheses derived from a theoretical model by Hopenhayn (Econometrica 1992): (H1) Firms that stop exporting in year t were in t-1 less productive than firms that continue to ...

Average wage, qualification of the workforce and export performance in German enterprises: Evidence from KombiFiD data

Average Wage, Qualification of the Workforce and Export Performance in German Enterprises: Evidence from KombiFiD Data Empirical investigations with enterprise level data from official statistics often use the average wage as a proxy variable for the qualification of the workforce, mostly due to the lack of detailed information on the qualification of the employees. This paper uses unique newly...

Innovation and Export Performance: Evidence from Uk and German Manufacturing Plants

Using comparable plant-level surveys we demonstrate significant differences between the determinants of export performance among UK and German manufacturing plants. Innovation, however, measured has a strong and systematic effect on the probability and propensity to export in both countries. The scale of plants' innovation activity is positively related to export propensity in both countries. I...

Determinants of Export Performance

Why More West than East German Firms Export

Why More West than East German Firms Export Using unique new data and a recently introduced non-linear decomposition technique this paper shows that the huge difference in the propensity to export between West and East German plants is to a large part due to differences in firm size and human capital intensity. JEL Classification: F14