, exporters are found to be more productive than non-exporters, and the more productive firms self-select into export markets …

This paper analyses the relationship between firm productivity and export behavior in German manufacturing firms. We …-productivity firms self-select themselves into export markets, while exporting itself does not play a significant role for productivity …

domestic market, better performers engage in export activities, and the top firms establish foreign subsidiaries. Using German …

evidence in favour of self-selection of more productive firms into export markets, but nearly no evidence in favour of the …

first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between productivity and size of the export market for Germany, a leading … actor on the world market for manufactured goods. It documents that firms that export to countries inside the euro-zone are … more productive than firms that sell their products in Germany only, but less productive than firms that export to …

into export markets is found. There is no evidence for the hypothesis that plants which start to export perform better in … least in part the result of a market driven selection process in which those export starters that have low productivity at … time continue to export. …

first comprehensive evidence on the relationship bet-ween productivity and size of the export market for Germany, a leading … actor on the world market for manufactured goods. It documents that firms that export to countries inside the euro-zone are … more productive than firms that sell their products in Ger-many only, but less productive than firms that export to …

into export mar-kets is found. There is no evidence for the hypothesis that plants which start to export perform better in … least in part the result of a market driven selection process in which those export starters that have low productivity at … time continue to export. …

(Melitz 2003). However, empirical findings suggest that also firms that are not highly productive export. This paper … investigates empirically how firms organize their export trade. If selling directly, sunk costs of foreign market entry are … prefer to export through trading companies, which involves lower sunk costs. Using a firm level panel data set of Ghanaian …

, exporters are found to be more productive than non-exporters, and the more productive firms self-select into export markets …