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Exports and profitability : first evidence for German manufacturing firms

Fryges, Helmut; Wagner, Joachim - In: The world economy : the leading journal on … 33 (2010) 3, pp. 399-423

Using unique recently released nationally representative high-quality longitudinal enterprise-level data for Germany …Using unique recently released nationally representative high-quality longitudinal enterprise-level data for Germany …

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Intra-industry adjustment to import competition : theory and application to the German clothing industry

Raff, Horst; Wagner, Joachim - In: The world economy : the leading journal on … 33 (2010) 8, pp. 1006-1022

This paper uses an oligopoly model with heterogeneous firms to examine how an industry adjusts to rising import competition. The model predicts that in the short run the least efficient firms in the industry become inactive, surviving firms face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and...

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A note on why more West than East German firms export

Wagner, Joachim - In: International economics and economic policy : IEEP 5 (2008) 4, pp. 363-370

Germany is one of the most important exporters of manufacturing goods in the world, but by far not all manufacturing … firms in Germany are exporters, and there is a remarkable gap between the share of exporters in all manufacturing firms … between West Germany and East Germany. While in West Germany in 2004 about two in three manufacturing plants were exporters …

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