TY - UNPB

T1 - Trading many goods with many countries: Exporters and importers from German manufacturing industries

AU - Wagner, Joachim

PY - 2012

Y1 - 2012

N2 - In Germany, for the reporting year 2009 transaction-level data on exports and imports of goods have been aggregated at the level of the exporting or importing firm for the first time. In these data the number of goods exported and imported and the number of countries exported to and imported from is reported, together with the values of these cross-border transactions. This paper uses these newly available data for firms from manufacturing industries to uncover new facts and to test theoretical hypotheses of the relationship between a core dimension of firm performance, namely productivity, and the number of goods traded and countries traded with.

AB - In Germany, for the reporting year 2009 transaction-level data on exports and imports of goods have been aggregated at the level of the exporting or importing firm for the first time. In these data the number of goods exported and imported and the number of countries exported to and imported from is reported, together with the values of these cross-border transactions. This paper uses these newly available data for firms from manufacturing industries to uncover new facts and to test theoretical hypotheses of the relationship between a core dimension of firm performance, namely productivity, and the number of goods traded and countries traded with.

KW - Economics

KW - exports

KW - imports

KW - manufacturing firms

KW - Germany

M3 - Working papers

T3 - University of Lüneburg Working Paper Series in Economics

BT - Trading many goods with many countries: Exporters and importers from German manufacturing industries

PB - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg

CY - Lüneburg

ER -