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Using a knowledge production framework and a rich set of plant level data this study demonstrates that in Germany firms that are active on international markets as exporters or foreign direct investors do generate more new knowledge than firms which sell on the national market only. These...
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This paper analyses the relationship between firm productivity and export behavior in German manufacturing firms. We examine whether productivity increases the probability of exporting, and assert that there is a causal relationship from high productivity to entering foreign markets, as...
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This paper tests some of the predictions of recent advances in trade theory that have focused on different trade patterns of firms within the same sector. Helpman, Melitz and Yeaple (2005) develop a model in which innate productivity differences between firms determine the degree of...
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In this paper we analyse the relationship between export and innovation activities of German service sector companies using data from the 1997 wave of the Mannheim Innovation Panel in the Service Sector. There is a lot of support for the Schumpeterian hypothesis of export activities being mainly...
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production networks, imported intermediate products from the OECD are added as a determinant of the corresponding exports of …
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This study reports results from an empirical investigation of business services sector firms that (start to) export, comparing exporters to firms that serve the national market only. We estimate identically specified empirical models using comparable enterprise level data from France, Germany,...
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exports by means of indexes, and compare those patterns with those of OECD countries, covering a period between 2000 and 2009 …. The results indicate that Brazilian, Russian, Chinese and Indian exports became more similar between 2000 and 2006, but … that similarity has declined ever since. Exports from China and India, in turn, are increasingly similar to each other and …
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is necessary to increase expenditure on R&D for business enterprises and higher education, exports and technology. If the …
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constraints and the extensive margins of exports in Germany, one of the leading actors on the international market for goods. In …
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We argue that, under certain conditions, firms consider exports as a substitute for domestic demand. Our econometric …
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