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Intra-good trade in Germany : a first look at the evidence
Wagner, Joachim - 2016 - This version: August 5, 2016
of trading firms are then used to report differences between firms that export and import different goods only (inter … and imports to document facts about the amount of intra-good trade - the simultaneous export and import of identical goods …-good traders) and firms that engage in the simultaneous export and import of identical goods (intra-good traders). We find that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011530603
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Credit constraints and the extensive margins of exports : first evidence for German manufacturing
Wagner, Joachim - 2015
reports a negative impact of credit constraints on both the number of goods exported and the number of export destination …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010491698
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The lumpiness of German exports and imports of goods
Wagner, Joachim - 2016 - This version: April 29, 2016
This paper looks at a hitherto neglected extensive margin of international trade by investigating for the first time the frequency at which German exporters and importers trade a given good with a given country. Imports and exports show a high degree of lumpiness. In a given year about half of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011459113
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The lumpiness of German exports and imports of goods
Wagner, Joachim - 2016
This paper looks at a hitherto neglected extensive margin of international trade by investigating for the first time the frequency at which German exporters and importers trade a given good with a given country. Imports and exports show a high degree of lumpiness. In a given year about half of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011473426
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Export scope and characteristics of destination countries : evidence from German transaction data
Wagner, Joachim - 2019 - [This version: May 7, 2019]
This paper uses information on export transactions by German firms from 2011 to document the role of characteristics of … destination countries for export scope, where export scope is defined as the number of different products a firm exports to a … destination market. It demonstrates that in line with theoretical hypotheses intra-firm differences in export scope across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012001731
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Transaction data for Germany's exports and imports of goods
Wagner, Joachim - 2019 - [This version: May 7, 2019]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012001733
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Trade dynamics and trade costs : first evidence from the exporter and importer dynamics database for Germany
Wagner, Joachim - 2015 - This version: October 21, 2015
This note uses the newly available Exporter and Importer Dynamics Database for Germany to investigate the links between trade dynamics and trade costs. It shows results for the dynamics of Germany’s goods trade as a whole, and for trade with two of the most important partner countries, namely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011389353
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Firms' global engagement and management practices
Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - 2017
We investigate whether firms' "global engagement", either in the form of exporting or opening up affiliates abroad, is related to the change in their management performance. We use new and unique data from a recent large scale firm survey of management practices in Germany. We calculate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011619574
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It pays to be active on many foreign markets profitability in German multi-market exporters and importers from manufacturing industries
Wagner, Joachim - 2017 - This version: March 21, 2017
This paper provides the first empirical evidence on the link between the number of foreign markets (where a market is defined as the combination of one traded good and one country traded with) a firm is active on and its profitability. We find that in German manufacturing industries the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011623760
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Exports and productivity - comparable evidence for 14 countries
Pertl, Leonhard (contributor); Schiavo, Stefano (contributor) - International Study Group on Exports and Productivity - 2008
evidence in favour of self-selection of more productive firms into export markets, but nearly no evidence in favour of the … more effective government report higher productivity premia. However, the level of development per se does not appear to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011610254