The impact of the 2004 EU enlargement on the performance of service enterprises in Germany's eastern border region

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The impact of the 2004 EU enlargement on the performance of service enterprises in Germany's eastern border region. / Braakmann, Nils; Vogel, Alexander.
In: Review of World Economics, Vol. 146, No. 1, 04.2010, p. 75-89.

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title = "The impact of the 2004 EU enlargement on the performance of service enterprises in Germany's eastern border region",
abstract = "We consider the impact of the 2004 EU enlargement on enterprise performance and the exporting behavior of German service enterprises in Germany's eastern border region. Our results from regression adjusted difference-in-differences estimators combined with matching and panel data from official statistics suggest that the EU enlargement had a negative impact on the turnover and export intensity of large enterprises in the border region. For small enterprises, we find an annual increase in turnover by 2.3% in 2004 and an annual decrease in profitability by 1.5 and 1.9 percentage points in 2004 and 2005, respectively.",
keywords = "Economics, Enterprise performance, EU enlargement, Exports",
author = "Nils Braakmann and Alexander Vogel",
year = "2010",
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doi = "10.1007/s10290-009-0042-1",
language = "English",
volume = "146",
pages = "75--89",
journal = "Review of World Economics",
issn = "1610-2878",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
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