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Why more West than East German firms export
- Autor(in)
- Erschienen
- 2. Juli 2007
- Nummer des Discussion-Papers
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2007-027
- Schlagwort(e)
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East Germany
Exports
micro data
West Germany
- Zusammenfsg.
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Using unique new data and a recently introduced non-linear decomposition technique this paper shows that the huge difference in the propensity to export between West and East German plants is to a large part due to differences in firm size and human capital intensity.
- article pub. typess JER
- Research article
- article languages JER
- Englisch
- article research fields JER
- economics
- JEL-Classification for JER
- F14 - Country and Industry Studies of Trade