Productivity and Size of the Export Market: Evidence for West and East German Plants, 2004

Joachim Wagner

doi:10.1515/jbnst-2007-0405

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Productivity and Size of the Export Market

Evidence for West and East German Plants, 2004

Joachim Wagner

Published/Copyright: March 16, 2016

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From the journal Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik Volume 227 Issue 4

Summary

Using unique recently released nationally representative high-quality data at the plant level, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between productivity and size of the export market for Germany, a leading actor on the world market for manufactured goods. It documents that firms that export to countries inside the euro-zone are more productive than firms that sell their products in Germany only, but less productive than firms that export to countries outside the euro-zone, too. This is in line with the hypothesis that export markets outside the euro-zone have higher entry costs that can only be paid by more productive firms.

Keywords: Exports; productivity; micro data; Germany

Online erschienen: 2016-3-16

Erschienen im Druck: 2007-8-1

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Exports; productivity; micro data; Germany