Still Different After All These Years: Extensive and Intensive Margins of Exports in East and West German Manufacturing Enterprises
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Still Different After All These Years : Extensive and Intensive Margins of Exports in East and West German Manufacturing Enterprises. / Wagner, Joachim.
In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, Vol. 236, No. 2, 01.03.2016, p. 297 - 322.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Still Different After All These Years
T2 - Extensive and Intensive Margins of Exports in East and West German Manufacturing Enterprises
AU - Wagner, Joachim
PY - 2016/3/1
Y1 - 2016/3/1
N2 - This paper uses a new tailor-made data set to investigate the differences in extensive and intensive margins of exports in manufacturing firms from East Germany and West Germany. It documents that these margins do still differ in 2010, 20 years after the re-unification of Germany. West German firms outperform East German firms at all four margins of exports – they have a larger propensity to export, export a larger share of total sales, export more goods and export to a larger number of countries. All these differences are large from an economic point of view. A decomposition analysis shows that in 2010 between 59 percent and 78 percent of the difference in margins can be explained by differences in firm characteristics.
AB - This paper uses a new tailor-made data set to investigate the differences in extensive and intensive margins of exports in manufacturing firms from East Germany and West Germany. It documents that these margins do still differ in 2010, 20 years after the re-unification of Germany. West German firms outperform East German firms at all four margins of exports – they have a larger propensity to export, export a larger share of total sales, export more goods and export to a larger number of countries. All these differences are large from an economic point of view. A decomposition analysis shows that in 2010 between 59 percent and 78 percent of the difference in margins can be explained by differences in firm characteristics.
KW - Economics
KW - Export Margins
KW - East germany
KW - West Germany
KW - decomposition analysis
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84960470014&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1515/jbnst-2015-1011
DO - 10.1515/jbnst-2015-1011
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 236
SP - 297
EP - 322
JO - Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
JF - Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
SN - 0021-4027
IS - 2
ER -