TY - RPRT A1 - Wagner, Joachim T1 - Why more west than east German firms export N2 - 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. KW - Export KW - Personenbezogene Daten KW - Westdeutschland KW - Ostdeutschland KW - Exports KW - micro data KW - West Germany KW - East Germany Y1 - 2007 UR - http://pub-data.leuphana.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/464 ER -