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 |
Series (Serial Number): | University of Lüneburg Working paper series in economics (43) |
Document Type: | ResearchPaper |
Language: | English |
Year of Completion: | 2007 |
Date of Publication (online): | 2007/04/02 |
Release Date: | 2007/04/02 |
Tag: | Exports; Germany; micro data; productivity |
GND Keyword: | Export; Produktivität; Personenbezogene Daten; Deutschland |
Institutes: | Universität / Frühere Fachbereiche |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft |