Productivity and size of export market. Evidence for west and east German plants
- 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.
URN: | urn:nbn:de:gbv:luen4-opus4-4653 |
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URL: | https://pub-data.leuphana.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/465 |
Schriftenreihe (Bandnummer): | University of Lüneburg Working paper series in economics (43) |
Dokumentart: | Research Paper |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2007 |
Datum der Veröffentlichung (online): | 02.04.2007 |
Datum der Freischaltung: | 02.04.2007 |
Freies Schlagwort / Tag: | Exports; Germany; micro data; productivity |
GND-Schlagwort: | Export; Produktivität; Personenbezogene Daten; Deutschland |
Fakultät / Forschungszentrum: | Universität / Frühere Fachbereiche |
DDC-Klassifikation: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft |