TY - UNPB

T1 - Unobserved firm heterogeneity and the establishment size

T2 - exports nexus: evidence from German panel data

AU - Wagner, Joachim

PY - 2002

Y1 - 2002

N2 - This paper starts from the stylized fact that firm size and exporting tends to be positively related. Using large sets of establishment panel data for three different industries from official statistics evidence is presented that the familiar picture of an export/sales ratio that ceteris paribus increases (at a decreasing rate) with firm size vanishes if unobserved firm heterogeneity is controlled for in a fixed effects fractional logit regression model. This finding is well in line with the fact that many small firms are "hidden export champions"

AB - This paper starts from the stylized fact that firm size and exporting tends to be positively related. Using large sets of establishment panel data for three different industries from official statistics evidence is presented that the familiar picture of an export/sales ratio that ceteris paribus increases (at a decreasing rate) with firm size vanishes if unobserved firm heterogeneity is controlled for in a fixed effects fractional logit regression model. This finding is well in line with the fact that many small firms are "hidden export champions"

KW - Economics

KW - Unternehmensgröße

KW - Export

KW - Mittelständische Unternehmerin

KW - Exportwirtschaft

KW - Betriebsgröße

KW - KMU

KW - SME

KW - Multinationales Unternehmen

KW - Schätzung

KW - Deutschland

KW - Logit-Modell

KW - Unternehmensgröße

KW - Export

KW - Mittelständische Unternehmerin

KW - Export sector

KW - Firm size

KW - Transnational corporation

KW - Estimation

KW - Germany

KW - Logit Model

M3 - Working papers

T3 - Arbeitsbericht

BT - Unobserved firm heterogeneity and the establishment size

PB - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg

CY - Lüneburg

ER -