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.
Lüneburg: Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg, 2014. (Working Paper Series in Economics; No. 313).

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Wagner, J 2014 'Still different after all these years: Extensive and intensive margins of exports in East and West German manufacturing enterprises' Working Paper Series in Economics, no. 313, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg, Lüneburg.

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Wagner, J. (2014). Still different after all these years: Extensive and intensive margins of exports in East and West German manufacturing enterprises. (Working Paper Series in Economics; No. 313). Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg.

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Wagner J. Still different after all these years: Extensive and intensive margins of exports in East and West German manufacturing enterprises. Lüneburg: Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg. 2014. (Working Paper Series in Economics; 313).

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