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Behar, Alberto; Manners, Phil; Nelson, Benjamin D. - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2009

Do better trade logistics reduce trade costs, raising a country´s exports? Yes, but the magnitude of the effectdepends on country size. Applying a new gravity model to a comprehensive logistics index, we nd that anaverage-sized country would raise exports by about 46% after a one-standard...

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Exports, Imports and Profitability:First Evidence for Manufacturing Enterprises

Wagner, Joachim - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

This paper documents for the first time the relationship between profitability and three typesof international trade activities – exports, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique newrepresentative data for manufacturing enterprises from Germany, one of the leading actorson the world market...

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Exports and Firm Characteristics inGerman Manufacturing Industries

Wagner, Joachim - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010

betweenfirm characteristics and export activities, demonstrating the decisive role of human capitalintensity for exporting. (3) It …

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Self-Selection into Export Markets byBusiness Services Firms: Evidence fromFrance, Germany and the United Kingdom

Temouri, Yama; Vogel, Alexander; Wagner, Joachim - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010

This study reports results from an empirical investigation of business services sector firmsthat (start to) export … and productivity hold in the yearsbefore the export start, which indicates self-selection into exporting of more …

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The Exporter Productivity Premium along theProductivity Distribution: First Evidence from aQuantile Regression Approach for Fixed EffectsPanel Data Models

Powel, David; Wagner, Joachim - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010

An emerging literature on international activities of heterogeneous firms documents thatexporting firms are more productive than firms that only sell on the national market. Thispositive exporter productivity premium shows up in a large number of empirical studies aftercontrolling for observed...

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Exports and Productivity Growth:First Evidence from a Continuous Treatment Approach

Fryges, Helmut; Wagner, Joachim - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

's exportstatus and the growth of its labour productivity, using the firms' export status as a binarytreatment variable and comparing …

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Productivity and Size of the Export Market:Evidence for West and East German Plants, 2004

Wagner, Joachim - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between productivityand size of the export market for Germany, a leading …

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Export Entry, Export Exit, and Productivity in German Manufacturing Industries

Wagner, Joachim - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007

productive than firms that continue to export in t. (H2) Firms that start to export in year t are less productive than firms that … export both in year t-1 and in year t. (H3) Firms from a cohort of export starters that still export in the last year of the … panel were more productive in the start year than firms from the same cohort that stopped to export in between. While …

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Exports and Productivity in Germany

Wagner, Joachim - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007

Using unique recently released nationally representative high-quality longitudinal data at the plant level, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and productivity in Germany, a leading actor on the world market for manufactured goods.It applies...

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Why more West than East German firms export

Wagner, Joachim - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007

difference in the propensity to export between West and East German plants is to a large part due to differences in firm size …

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