TY - UNPB

T1 - Productivity and size of the export market

T2 - evidence for West and East German plants 2004

AU - Wagner, Joachim

PY - 2007

Y1 - 2007

N2 - Using unique recently released nationally representative high-quality data at the plant level, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationshipm 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 theeuro-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.

AB - Using unique recently released nationally representative high-quality data at the plant level, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationshipm 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 theeuro-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 - Economics

KW - exports

KW - productivity

KW - micro data

KW - Germany

M3 - Working papers

T3 - Working paper series in economics

BT - Productivity and size of the export market

PB - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg

CY - Lüneburg

ER -