Productivity and size of the export market: Evidence for west and east German plants, 2004

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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.

OriginalspracheEnglisch
ZeitschriftJahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
Jahrgang227
Ausgabenummer4
Seiten (von - bis)403-409
Anzahl der Seiten7
ISSN0021-4027
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PublikationsstatusErschienen - 08.2007

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