Export intensity and plant characteristics: what can we learn from quantile regression?

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Export intensity and plant characteristics: what can we learn from quantile regression? / Wagner, Joachim.
Hamburg: Hamburgisches Welt-Wirtschafts-Archiv - HWWA , 2004. (HWWA discussion paper; No. 304).

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Wagner, J 2004 'Export intensity and plant characteristics: what can we learn from quantile regression?' HWWA discussion paper, no. 304, Hamburgisches Welt-Wirtschafts-Archiv - HWWA , Hamburg. <http://hdl.handle.net/10419/19276>

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Wagner, J. (2004). Export intensity and plant characteristics: what can we learn from quantile regression? (HWWA discussion paper; No. 304). Hamburgisches Welt-Wirtschafts-Archiv - HWWA . http://hdl.handle.net/10419/19276

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Wagner J. Export intensity and plant characteristics: what can we learn from quantile regression? Hamburg: Hamburgisches Welt-Wirtschafts-Archiv - HWWA . 2004. (HWWA discussion paper; 304).

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