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. For example, firm size is statistically...

This paper uses an unbalanced panel data set for exporting firms from manufacturing industries in one German Federal state, Lower Saxony, to investigate the microstructure of the recent export boom. Looking at data for 1995/96 - 2001/2002 it is demonstrated that a considerable number of plants...