entrants, in total exports and imports) in destination countries of exports and countries of origin of imports on the one hand …

This paper uses information on more than 160 million export and import transactions by German firms from 2009 to 2012 …

manufacturing firms. First, there is a negative correlation between firms' productivity and their export share to low …-income destinations. Second, there is a negative correlation between firms' innovation activity and their export share to low … found between the share of exports to lowincome countries and either productivity or R&D intensity is never in line with the …

study reports that these low-productivity exporters are not marginal exporters defined according to the share of exports in … total sales, or export participation over time, or the number of goods exported, or the number of countries exported to …. This paper documents that low-productive exporters are competitive because they export high-quality goods. The quality of …

of input factors and the quality of exports in enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany, one of the leading …-quality goods tend to use high-quality inputs, while the firm size is not related at all to export quality. …

profitability and the quality of exports in enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany, one of the leading actors on the …

's exports and the distance to destination countries for Germany. To anticipate the most important result, it is shown that the …