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We use the unique recently released German business services statistics panel to conduct the first comprehensive … empirical study on the relationship between exports and profitability for the business services sector. We document a negative … profitability differential of services exporters compared to non-exporters that is statistically significant, though rather small …
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In empirical studies it often happens that some variables for some units are far away from the other observations in the sample. These extreme observations, or outliers, often have a large impact on the results of statistical analyses - conclusions based on a sample with and without these units...
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This paper makes three contributions. (1) It summarizes in tabular form a recent literature made of 36 micro-econometric studies for 16 different countries on the relationship between export destination and firm performance. (2) It reports estimates of the productivity premium of German firms...
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In empirical studies it often happens that some variables for some units are far away from the other observations in the sample. These extreme observations, or outliers, often have a large impact on the results of statistical analyses - conclusions based on a sample with and without these units...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286574
This paper makes three contributions. (1) It summarizes in tabular form a recent literature made of 36 micro-econometric studies for 16 different countries on the relationship between export destination and firm performance. (2) It reports estimates of the productivity premium of German firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286590
manufacturing industries. This note adds comparable evidence for firms from the business services industries. We find that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286606
In empirical studies it often happens that some variables for some units are far away from the other observations in the sample. These extreme observations, or outliers, often have a large impact on the results of statistical analyses – conclusions based on a sample with and without these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003958692
In empirical studies it often happens that some variables for some units are far away from the other observations in the sample. These extreme observations, or outliers, often have a large impact on the results of statistical analyses – conclusions based on a sample with and without these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003962105
An emerging literature on international activities of heterogeneous firms documents that exporting firms are more productive than firms that only sell on the national market. This positive exporter productivity premium shows up in a large number of empirical studies after controlling for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139057
This paper makes three contributions. (1) It summarizes in tabular form a recent literature made of 36 micro-econometric studies for 16 different countries on the relationship between export destination and firm performance. (2) It reports estimates of the productivity premium of German firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010858051