This paper contributes to the literature by comparing the productivity distribution for firms with various numbers of … goods. It applies a non-parametric test for first-order stochastic dominance of one productivity distribution over another … imported from, the higher is the productivity of the firms - not only on average, but over the whole productivity distribution …

Diese Studie versucht zu einem besseren Verständnis von export performance und technologischer Leistungsfähigkeit …

This paper uses information on more than 160 million export and import transactions by German firms from 2009 to 2012 … larger, older and foreign owned and that have higher labor productivity, human capital intensity and R&D intensity. With the … exception of labor productivity these results are valid ceteris paribus, too. All these empirical results are in line with …