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's exportstatus and the growth of its labour productivity, using the firms' export status as a binarytreatment variable and comparing …
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first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between productivityand size of the export market for Germany, a leading …
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productive than firms that continue to export in t. (H2) Firms that start to export in year t are less productive than firms that … export both in year t-1 and in year t. (H3) Firms from a cohort of export starters that still export in the last year of the … panel were more productive in the start year than firms from the same cohort that stopped to export in between. While …
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Using unique recently released nationally representative high-quality longitudinal data at the plant level, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and productivity in Germany, a leading actor on the world market for manufactured goods.It applies...
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difference in the propensity to export between West and East German plants is to a large part due to differences in firm size …
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Do better trade logistics reduce trade costs, raising a country´s exports? Yes, but the magnitude of the effectdepends on country size. Applying a new gravity model to a comprehensive logistics index, we …nd that anaverage-sized country would raise exports by about 46% after a one-standard...
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This paper shows empirically that China's trade balance is sensitive to fluctuations in the real effective exchange … tend to fall rather than increase. By estimating bilateral import equations for China and its major trade partners, we find …
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This paper documents for the first time the relationship between profitability and three typesof international trade activities – exports, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique newrepresentative data for manufacturing enterprises from Germany, one of the leading actorson the world market...
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betweenfirm characteristics and export activities, demonstrating the decisive role of human capitalintensity for exporting. (3) It …
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This study reports results from an empirical investigation of business services sector firmsthat (start to) export … and productivity hold in the yearsbefore the export start, which indicates self-selection into exporting of more …
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