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Productivity and Size of the Export Market Evidence for West and East German Plants, 2004
- Autor(in)
- Erschienen
- 2. Juli 2007
- Nummer des Discussion-Papers
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2007-028
- Schlagwort(e)
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Exports
Germany
micro data
productivity
- Zusammenfsg.
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Using unique recently released nationally representative high-quality data at the plant level, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between productivity and size of the export market for Germany, a leading actor on the world market for manufactured goods. It documents that firms that export to countries inside the euro-zone are more productive than firms that sell their products in Germany only, but less productive than firms that export to countries outside the euro-zone, too. This is in line with the hypothesis that export markets outside the euro-zone have higher entry costs that can only by paid by more productive firms.
- 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 ; D21 - Firm Behavior