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Export Intensity and Plant Characteristics: What Can We Learn from Quantile Regression?

Wagner, Joachim - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2004

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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Exports, Foreign Direct Investment, and Productivity: Evidence from German Firm Level Data

Wagner, Joachim - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2005

, Melitz and Yeaple in a model that explains the decision of heterogeneous firms to serve foreign markets either trough exports …

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The Causal Effects of Exports on Firm Size and Labor Productivity: First Evidence From a Matching Approach

Wagner, Joachim - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2001

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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Unobserved Firm Heterogeneity and the Size - Exports Nexus: Evidence from German Panel Data

Wagner, Joachim - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2002

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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On the Micro-Structure of the German Export Boom: Evidence from Establishment Panel Data, 1995 - 2002

Wagner, Joachim - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2003

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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Exports and Productivity: A Survey of the Evidence from Firm Level Data

Wagner, Joachim - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2005

While the role of exports in promoting growth in general, and productivity in particular, has been investigated …

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German FDI and Integration of Production in the EU

Jungnickel, Rolf; Keller, Dietmar - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2003

positive connection between foreign production and both exports and imports points at the significance of efficiency …

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Exchange Rate and Output Dynamics Between Japan and Korea

Kang, Sammo; Kim, Soyoung; Wang, Yunjong; Yoon, Deok Ryong - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2003

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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Aid, Governance, and Private Foreign Investment: Some Puzzling Findings and a Possible Explanation

Harms, Philipp; Lutz, Matthias - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2003

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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Multinational Activity in a Macroeconomic Model of the Small Open Economy

Otto, Alkis Henri - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2004

We study the effects of FDI and increasing multinational activity utilizing a macroeconomic two-sector model of the small open economy with flexible exchange rates and perfect capital mobility. The focus is on horizontal greenfield investment and its impact on production, exchange rates, trade,...

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