Wagner, Joachim - 2014 - This version: February 6, 2014
of the heterogeneous firm models from the new new trade theory is that exporters are more productive than non …-exporters. However, many firms from the lower end of the productivity distribution are exporters. Germany is a case in point. A recent … study reports that these low-productivity exporters are not marginal exporters defined according to the share of exports in …