Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.48548/pubdata-1187
Resource typeWorking Paper
Title(s)Exports, Foreign Direct Investment and Productivity: Evidence from German Firm Level Data
DOI10.48548/pubdata-1187
Handle20.500.14123/1250
CreatorWagner, Joachim  0000-0001-6058-4536  129798215
AbstractThis paper presents the first empirical test with German establishment level data of a hypothesis derived by Helpman, Melitz and Yeaple in a model that explains the decision of heterogeneous firms to serve foreign markets either trough exports or foreign direct investment: only the more productive firms choose to serve the foreign markets, and the most productive among this group will further choose to serve these markets via foreign direct investments. Using a non-parametric test for first order stochastic dominance it is shown that, in line with this hypothesis, the productivity distribution of foreign direct investors dominates that of exporters, which in turn dominates that of national market suppliers.
LanguageEnglish
KeywordsExports; Foreign Direct Investment; Productivity; Heterogeneous Firms; Stochastic; Export; Auslandsinvestition; Produktivität; Stochastik
Year of publication in PubData2005
Publishing typeFirst publication
Publication versionPublished version
Date issued2005-07-06
Creation contextResearch
Published byMedien- und Informationszentrum, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
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