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Using quantile regression and a rich cross section data set for German manufacturing plants this paper documents that the impact of plant characteristics on export activities varies along the conditional size distribution of the export/sales ratio.
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This paper uses a large plant level panel data set from Germany and a matching approach to look for causal effects of starting to export on plant performance. We find positive effects on growth of employment, labor productivity, and wages. Dieses Diskussionspapier untersucht, welche Effekte der...
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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 ceteris paribus...
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, Melitz and Yeaple in a model that explains the decision of heterogeneous firms to serve foreign markets either trough exports …
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dynamics is due to positive and negative changes of exports in plants that continue to export. A small fraction made of four to … five percent of all exporting plants is responsible for around 70 to 80 percent of the gross increase in exports. Firms … with expanding and contracting exports are found simultaneously in all broad sectors, technology classes and firm size …
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While the role of exports in promoting growth in general, and productivity in particular, has been investigated …
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Es wird das Konzept für ein makroökonomisches Strukturmodell mit integriertem Innovationsprozesskern zur Analyse und Projektion der Wirtschaftsentwicklung in Deutschland vorgestellt. Das geplante Modell soll explizit die Auswirkungen des immer bedeutsamer werdenden IuK-technologischen...
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positive connection between foreign production and both exports and imports points at the significance of efficiency …
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Japan and Korea are close countries in terms of economic interaction as well as geography. To quantify the impact of changes in the yen-dollar exchange rate on the Korean economy before and after the crisis in 1997, the sample period has been divided into two sub-periods and the causal...
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Does official aid pave the road for private foreign investment or does it suffocate private initiative by diverting resources towards unproductive activities? In this paper we explore this question using data for a large number of developing and emerging economies. Controlling for countries'...
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