Subsidies and exports in Germany: first evidence from enterprise panel data
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Lüneburg: Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg, 2009. (Working paper series in economics; No. 117).
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TY - UNPB
T1 - Subsidies and exports in Germany
T2 - first evidence from enterprise panel data
AU - Girma, Sourafel
AU - Görg, Holger
AU - Wagner, Joachim
N1 - Literaturverz. S. 14 - 16
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - We use newly available representative panel data for manufacturing enterprises in West and East Germany to investigate the link between production-related subsidies and exports. We document that only a small fraction of enterprises is subsidized, and that exports and subsidies are positively related. Using a matching approach to investigate the causal effect of subsidies on export activities we find no impact of subsidies on the probability to start exporting, and only weak evidence for an impact of subsidies on the share of exports in total sales in West Germany but no evidence in East Germany.
AB - We use newly available representative panel data for manufacturing enterprises in West and East Germany to investigate the link between production-related subsidies and exports. We document that only a small fraction of enterprises is subsidized, and that exports and subsidies are positively related. Using a matching approach to investigate the causal effect of subsidies on export activities we find no impact of subsidies on the probability to start exporting, and only weak evidence for an impact of subsidies on the share of exports in total sales in West Germany but no evidence in East Germany.
KW - Economics
KW - Exports
KW - Germany
KW - enterprise panel data
KW - subsidies
M3 - Working papers
T3 - Working paper series in economics
BT - Subsidies and exports in Germany
PB - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg
CY - Lüneburg
ER -