The impact of the 2004 EU-enlargement on enterprise performance and exports of service enterprises in the German eastern border region
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Date of first publication2009-04-02
Date of publication in PubData 2025-07-29
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English
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Braakmann, Nils
Vogel, Alexander
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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 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.
Keywords
EU-Enlargement; Export; Enterprise Performance
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Working Paper Series in Economics
Number of the series contribution
124
Leuphana Institution
Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre (IVWL)
Fakultät Wirtschafts-, Verhaltens- und Rechtswissenschaften
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All computations were done in the research data centre of the Statistical Office in Berlin using Stata 10.1..