Wagner, Joachim - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 1, pp. 467-481
-exporters. It is argued that this exporter-productivity premium is due to extra cost of exporting that can be covered profitably by … more productive firms only. Germany is a case in point - exporting firms from manufacturing industries are more productive … than non-exporting firms from the same 4-digit industry both on average and over the whole productivity distribution …