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Exports and Productivity : A survey of the evidence from firm level data

Wagner, Joachim - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2005

, exporters are found to be more productive than non-exporters, and the more productive firms self-select into export markets …

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Exports, foreign direct investment, and productivity: Evidence from German firm level data

Wagner, Joachim - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2005

This paper presents the first empirical test with German establishment level data of a hypothesis derived by Helpman, Melitz and Yeaple in a model that explains the decision of heterogeneous firms to serve foreign markets either trough exports or foreign direct investment: only the more...

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International Firm Activities and Innovation: Evidence from Knowledge Production Functions for German Firms

Wagner, Joachim - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2006

Using a knowledge production framework and a rich set of plant level data this study demonstrates that in Germany firms that are active on international markets as exporters or foreign direct investors do generate more new knowledge than firms which sell on the national market only. These...

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On the micro-structure of the German export boom: Evidence from establishment panel data, 1995 - 2002

Wagner, Joachim - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2003

state, Lower Saxony, to investigate the micro-structure of the recent export boom. Looking at data for 1995/96 to 2001/02 it … is demonstrated that a considerable number of plants starts and stops exporting in each year, but that most of the export … dynamics is due to positive and negative changes of exports in plants that continue to export. A small fraction made of four to …

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