Kiel Working Papers, Kiel Institute for World Economics
No 1481:
Subsidies and Exports in Germany. First Evidence from Enterprise Panel Data
Sourafel Girma, Holger Görg and Joachim Wagner
Abstract: 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
Keywords: Subsidies, export, Germany, enterprise panel data; (follow links to similar papers)
JEL-Codes: F13,; F14,; H29; (follow links to similar papers)
28 pages, February 2009
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