TY - UNPB

T1 - Trade Dynamics and Trade Costs

T2 - First Evidence from the Exporter and Importer Dynamics Database for Germany

AU - Wagner, Joachim

PY - 2015

Y1 - 2015

N2 - This note uses the newly available Exporter and Importer Dynamics Database for Germany to investigate the links between trade dynamics and trade costs. It shows results for the dynamics of Germany’s goods trade as a whole, and for trade with two of the most important partner countries, namely France and China. Furthermore, it reports results from the first empirical study that searches for links between measures of trade dynamics (entry, exit and survival rates, and share of entrants, in total exports and imports) in destination countries of exports and countries of origin of imports on the one hand and characteristics of thesecountries (distance to Germany, difficulty of foreign trade, and market size) on the other hand.

AB - This note uses the newly available Exporter and Importer Dynamics Database for Germany to investigate the links between trade dynamics and trade costs. It shows results for the dynamics of Germany’s goods trade as a whole, and for trade with two of the most important partner countries, namely France and China. Furthermore, it reports results from the first empirical study that searches for links between measures of trade dynamics (entry, exit and survival rates, and share of entrants, in total exports and imports) in destination countries of exports and countries of origin of imports on the one hand and characteristics of thesecountries (distance to Germany, difficulty of foreign trade, and market size) on the other hand.

KW - Economics

KW - Exports

KW - imports

KW - transaction level data

KW - Germany

M3 - Working papers

T3 - University of Lüneburg Working Paper Series in Economics

BT - Trade Dynamics and Trade Costs

PB - Leuphana Universität Lüneburg

CY - Lüneburg

ER -