TY - JOUR

T1 - Productivity and size of the export market

T2 - Evidence for west and east German plants, 2004

AU - Wagner, Joachim

PY - 2007/8

Y1 - 2007/8

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 be paid by more productive firms.

AB - 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 be paid by more productive firms.

KW - Economics

KW - Exports

KW - productivity

KW - micro data

KW - Germany

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UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/bca416a7-a08a-3d2f-8261-5d76c6e542c2/

U2 - 10.1515/jbnst-2007-0405

DO - 10.1515/jbnst-2007-0405

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 227

SP - 403

EP - 409

JO - Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik

JF - Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik

SN - 0021-4027

IS - 4

ER -