This paper contributes to the flourishing literature on exports and productivity by using a unique newly available …

first comprehensive evidence on the relationship bet-ween productivity and size of the export market for Germany, a leading …

presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on … literature to document that the positive productivity differential of exporters compared to non-exporters is statistically …. Results for West Germany support the hypothesis that the productivity differential between exporters and non-exporters is at …

firms always have a higher market share, there is no monotonic relationship between firms' productivity level and their … effect”. Therefore, the incentive to add more products weakens as productivity rises. This leads to Lemma 3 in Feenstra and …

-exporters. It is argued that this exporter-productivity premium is due to extra cost of exporting that can be covered profitably by … than non-exporting firms from the same 4-digit industry both on average and over the whole productivity distribution …. However, many firms from the lower end of this distribution are exporters. This paper report that these low-productivity …

for first order stochastic dominance it is shown that, in line with this hypothesis, the productivity distribution of … guide empirical work on the relation between exports, R&D and productivity. …