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Higher productivity in importing German manufacturing firms: self-selection, learning from importing, or both?

Vogel, Alexander; Wagner, Joachim - 2008

This paper uses a newly available comprehensive panel data set for manufacturing enterprises from 2001 to 2005 to document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the world market for goods. Furthermore, for the first time...

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Offshoring and firm performance: self-selection, effects on performance, or both?

Wagner, Joachim - 2009

performance. Enterprises that relocated activities abroad in the period 2001-03 for the first time are compared to firms that did … performance, six different variants of a matching approach of firms that did and did not start to relocate abroad in 2001-03 were … performed based on a propensity score estimated using firm characteristics in 2000 and the change in the performance variable …

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The post-entry performance of cohorts of export starters in German manufacturing industries

Wagner, Joachim - 2010

This paper investigates four cohorts of firms from German manufacturing industries that started to export in the years between 1998 and 2002 and follows them over the five years after the start. Export starters are a rare species and they are small on average compared to incumbent exporters....

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