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The impact of the 2004 EU-enlargement on enterprise performance and exports of service enterprises in the German eastern border region

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 resulted in a decline by circa 1 percent in the turnover and the profitability of large enterprises in the border region, respectively. For small enterprises, we find an annual increase in turnover by 2.7% in both 2004 and 2005 and an annual decrease in profitability by 1.8 and 2.6 percentage points in 2004 and 2005 respectively.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Working Paper Series in Economics ; No. 124

Classification
Wirtschaft
Economic Integration
Industry Studies: Services: General
Subject
EU-enlargement
enterprise performance
exports

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Braakmann, Nils
Vogel, Alexander
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre
(where)
Lüneburg
(when)
2009

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  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Braakmann, Nils
  • Vogel, Alexander
  • Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre

Time of origin

  • 2009

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