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Subsidies and Exports in Germany First Evidence from Enterprise Panel Data

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Sourafel Girma () (University of Nottingham)
Holger Görg () (Kiel Institute for the World Economy and Chistian-Albrechts-University)
Joachim Wagner () (Institute of Economics, University of Lüneburg)

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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.

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Paper provided by University of Lüneburg, Institute of Economics in its series Working Paper Series in Economics with number 117.

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Keywords: Subsidies; export; Germany; enterprise panel data;

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F13 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations
F14 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Country and Industry Studies of Trade
H29 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Other

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