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. For example, firm size is statistically...

Many plant-level studies find that average wages in exporting firms are higher than in non-exporting firms from the same industry and region. This paper uses a large set of linked employeremployee data from Germany to analyze this exporter wage premium. We show that the wage differential becomes...

Der positive Zusammenhang zwischen Firmengröße und Exporttätigkeit gilt als ein stilisierter Fakt: Gestützt auf deskriptive Befunde und Ergebnisse von Regressionsmodellen auf der Basis von Querschnittsdaten wird argumentiert, dass sowohl die Wahrscheinlichkeit zu exportieren als auch der...

While exports have played an important role in German business cycles, little is known about the export supply response of German firms. This paper presents a dynamic model of the export decision by a profit-maximizing firm. Using a panel of German manufacturing plants, we test for the role of...