TY - RPRT T1 - Productivity and size of export market. Evidence for west and east German plants N2 - 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. KW - Export KW - Produktivität KW - Personenbezogene Daten KW - Deutschland KW - Exports KW - productivity KW - micro data KW - Germany Y1 - 2007 UR - http://pub-data.leuphana.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/465 ER -