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The Great Export Recovery in German manufacturing industries, 2009/2010
Wagner, Joachim - 2012
This paper uses comprehensive high-quality panel data from official statistics for exporting enterprises to investigate the micro-structure of the recent export recovery in 2010 in manufacturing industries in Germany after the great recession of 2008/2009. Almost all of the increase in exports...
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On the micro-structure of the German export boom : evidence from establishment panel data, 1995 - 2002
Wagner, Joachim - 2003
This paper uses an unbalanced panel data set for exporting firms from manufacturing industries in one German federal state, Lower Saxony, to investigate the micro-structure of the recent export boom. Looking at data for 1995/96 to 2001/2002 it is demonstrated that a considerable number of plants...
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Exports, R&D and productivity in German business services firms: A test of the Bustos-model
Vogel, Alexander; Wagner, Joachim - 2012
This paper uses newly available data for German business services firms to test a hypothesis derived by Bustos (AER 2011) in a model that explains the decision of heterogeneous firms to export and to engage in R&D. Using a non-parametric test for first order stochastic dominance it is shown...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294464
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Daten des IAB-Betriebspanels und Firmenpaneldaten aus Erhebungen der Amtlichen Statistik: Substitutive oder komplementäre Inputs für die Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung?
Wagner, Joachim - 2012
werden können, stammen in Deutschland vor allem aus zwei Quellen, dem IAB-Betriebspanel und den AFiD-Panel, wobei das Akronym … AFiD für Amtliche Firmendaten für Deutschland steht, die von den Statistischen Ämtern erhoben werden. In diesem Vortrag … Deutschland sowohl das IAB-Betriebspanel als auch die AFiD-Panel enthalten muss, denn nur so ist sicher gestellt, dass ein …
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Exports, R&D and productivity: A test of the Bustos-model with German enterprise data
Wagner, Joachim - 2012
This paper presents the first empirical test with German firm level data of a hypothesis derived by Bustos (AER 2011) in a model that explains the decision of heterogeneous firms to export and to engage in R&D. Using a non-parametric test for first order stochastic dominance it is shown that, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294473
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Trading many goods with many countries: Exporters and importers from German manufacturing industries
Wagner, Joachim - 2012
In Germany, for the reporting year 2009 transaction-level data on exports and imports of goods have been aggregated at the level of the exporting or importing firm for the first time. In these data the number of goods exported and imported and the number of countries exported to and imported...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294477
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Productivity and the extensive margins of trade in German manufacturing firms: Evidence from a non-parametric test
Wagner, Joachim - 2012
This paper contributes to the literature by comparing the productivity distribution for firms with various numbers of goods traded and various numbers of countries traded with from Germany, one of the leading actors on the world market for goods. It applies a non-parametric test for first-order...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294490
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Export Intensity and Plant Characteristics: What Can We Learn from Quantile Regression?
Wagner, Joachim - 2004
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.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295437
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Exports, foreign direct investment, and productivity: Evidence from German firm level data
Wagner, Joachim - 2005
This paper presents the first empirical test with German establishment level data of a hypothesis derived by Helpman, Melitz and Yeaple in a model that explains the decision of heterogeneous firms to serve foreign markets either trough exports or foreign direct investment: only the more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295451
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Unobserved firm heterogeneity and the size-exports nexus: Evidence from German panel data
Wagner, Joachim - 2002
This paper starts from the stylized fact that firm size and exporting tends to be positively related. Using large sets of establishment panel data for three different industries from official statistics evidence is presented that the familiar picture of an export/sales ratio that ceteris paribus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295516