Productivity and the extensive margins of trade in German manufacturing firms: Evidence from a non-parametric test

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This paper contributes to the literature by comparing the productivity distribution for firms with various numbers of goods traded and various numbers of countries traded with from Germany, one of the leading actors on the world market for goods, It applies a non-parametric test for first-order stochastic dominance of one productivity distribution over another. We find that the larger the number of goods exported or imparted, and the larger the number of countries exported to or imported from, the higher is the productivity of the firms - not only on average, but over the whole productivity distribution, This is in line with implications of recent theoretical models of multi-product multi-country trading firms.
OriginalspracheEnglisch
ZeitschriftEconomics Bulletin
Jahrgang32
Ausgabenummer4
Seiten (von - bis)3061-3070
Anzahl der Seiten10
ISSN1545-2921
PublikationsstatusErschienen - 2012