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

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Using unique recently released nationally representative high-quality data at the plant level, this paper presents 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 countries outside the euro-zone, too. This is in line with the hypothesis that export markets outside the euro-zone have higher entry costs that can only by paid by more productive firms.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Papers on Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy ; No. 1307

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Empirical Studies of Trade ; Firm Behavior: Theory
• Subject: Exports ; productivity ; micro data ; Germany ; Exportindustrie ; Produktivität ; Industriegüteraußenhandel ; Auslandsmarkt ; Landesgröße ; Deutschland ; EU-Staaten ; Welt

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Wagner, Joachim
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Max Planck Institute of Economics
• (where): Jena
• (when): 2007

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/24938
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:46 AM CET