Arbeitspapier

Why more West than East German firms export

Using unique new data and a recently introduced non-linear decomposition technique this paper shows that the huge difference in the propensity to export between West and East German plants is to a large part due to differences in firm size and human capital intensity.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Jena Economic Research Papers ; No. 2007,027

Classification
Wirtschaft
Empirical Studies of Trade
Subject
Exports
micro data
West Germany
East Germany
Exportindustrie
Verarbeitendes Gewerbe
Vergleich
Betriebsgröße
Humankapital
Alte Bundesländer
Neue Bundesländer
Deutschland

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Wagner, Joachim
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Max Planck Institute of Economics
(where)
Jena
(when)
2007

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Wagner, Joachim
  • Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Max Planck Institute of Economics

Time of origin

  • 2007

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