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the impact of plant characteristics on export activities varies along the conditional size distribution of the export …
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starting to export on plant performance. We find positive effects on growth of employment, labor productivity, and wages. …
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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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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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, exporters are found to be more productive than non-exporters, and the more productive firms self-select into export markets …
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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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