Unobserved Firm Heterogeneity and the Size-Exports Nexus: Evidence from German Panel Data

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This paper starts from the stylized fact that firm size and exporting tends to be positively related. Using large sets of establishment panel data for three different industries from official statistics, evidence is presented that the familiar picture of an export/sales ratio that increases (at a decreasing rate) with firm size vanishes if unobserved firm heterogeneity is controlled for in a fixed-effects fractional logit regression model. This finding is well in line with the fact that many small firms are "hidden export champions".
Original languageEnglish
JournalReview of World Economics
Volume139
Issue number1
Pages (from-to)161-172
Number of pages12
ISSN1610-2878
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Publication statusPublished - 2003

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