On the micro-structure of the German export boom: evidence from establishment panel data, 1995 - 2002
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Hamburg: Hamburgisches Welt-Wirtschafts-Archiv - HWWA , 2003. (HWWA discussion paper; No. 249).
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T1 - On the micro-structure of the German export boom
T2 - evidence from establishment panel data, 1995 - 2002
AU - Wagner, Joachim
N1 - Literaturverz. S. 14 - 15
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - This paper uses an unbalanced panel data set for exporting firms from manufacturing industries in one German federal state, Lower Saxony, to investigate the micro-structure of the recent export boom. Looking at data for 1995/96 to 2001/2002 it is demonstrated that a considerable number of plants start and stop exporting in each year, but that most of the export dynamics is due to positive and negative changes of exports in plants that continue to export. A small fraction made of four to five percent of all exporting plants is responsible for around 70 to 80 percent of the gross increase in exports. Firms with expanding and contracting exports are found simultaneously in all broad sectors, technology classes and firm size classes. Patterns of export behavior differ widely between the plants over the periods investigated.
AB - This paper uses an unbalanced panel data set for exporting firms from manufacturing industries in one German federal state, Lower Saxony, to investigate the micro-structure of the recent export boom. Looking at data for 1995/96 to 2001/2002 it is demonstrated that a considerable number of plants start and stop exporting in each year, but that most of the export dynamics is due to positive and negative changes of exports in plants that continue to export. A small fraction made of four to five percent of all exporting plants is responsible for around 70 to 80 percent of the gross increase in exports. Firms with expanding and contracting exports are found simultaneously in all broad sectors, technology classes and firm size classes. Patterns of export behavior differ widely between the plants over the periods investigated.
KW - Economics
KW - Niedersachsen
KW - Export
KW - Betriebsstatistik
KW - Exports
KW - business cycle
KW - establishment panel data
M3 - Working papers
T3 - HWWA discussion paper
BT - On the micro-structure of the German export boom
PB - Hamburgisches Welt-Wirtschafts-Archiv - HWWA
CY - Hamburg
ER -