Exports, Imports and Firm Survival: First evidence for manufacturing enterprises in Germany
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Lüneburg: Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg, 2011. (Working Paper Series in Economics; No. 211).
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TY - UNPB
T1 - Exports, Imports and Firm Survival
T2 - First evidence for manufacturing enterprises in Germany
AU - Wagner, Joachim
PY - 2011/8
Y1 - 2011/8
N2 - This paper documents the relationship between firm survival and three types ofinternational trade activities – exports, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from Germany, one of the leading actors on the world market for goods, that merge information from surveys performed by the Statistical Offices and administrative data collected by the Tax Authorities. It contributes to the literature by providing the first evidence on the role of imports and two-way trading for firm survival in a highly developed country. Descriptive statistics and regression analysis (with and without explicitly taking the rare events nature of firm exit into account) point to a strong positive link between firm survival on the one hand and imports and two-way trading on the other hand, while exporting alone does not play a role for exiting the market or not.
AB - This paper documents the relationship between firm survival and three types ofinternational trade activities – exports, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from Germany, one of the leading actors on the world market for goods, that merge information from surveys performed by the Statistical Offices and administrative data collected by the Tax Authorities. It contributes to the literature by providing the first evidence on the role of imports and two-way trading for firm survival in a highly developed country. Descriptive statistics and regression analysis (with and without explicitly taking the rare events nature of firm exit into account) point to a strong positive link between firm survival on the one hand and imports and two-way trading on the other hand, while exporting alone does not play a role for exiting the market or not.
KW - Economics, empirical/statistics
KW - exports
KW - imports
KW - firm survival
M3 - Working papers
T3 - Working Paper Series in Economics
BT - Exports, Imports and Firm Survival
PB - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg
CY - Lüneburg
ER -