Active on many foreign markets. A portrait of German multi-market exporters and importers from manufacturing industries

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Active on many foreign markets. A portrait of German multi-market exporters and importers from manufacturing industries. / Wagner, Joachim.
Lüneburg: Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg, 2017. (Working Paper Series in Economics; No. 368).

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Wagner, J 2017 'Active on many foreign markets. A portrait of German multi-market exporters and importers from manufacturing industries' Working Paper Series in Economics, no. 368, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg, Lüneburg.

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Wagner, J. (2017). Active on many foreign markets. A portrait of German multi-market exporters and importers from manufacturing industries. (Working Paper Series in Economics; No. 368). Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg.

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Wagner J. Active on many foreign markets. A portrait of German multi-market exporters and importers from manufacturing industries. Lüneburg: Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg. 2017 Jan. (Working Paper Series in Economics; 368).

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