PubData Leuphana Repository: Export entry, export exit, and productivity in German manufacturing industries

Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.48548/pubdata-1261

Resource type	Working Paper
Title(s)	Export entry, export exit, and productivity in German manufacturing industries
DOI	10.48548/pubdata-1261
Handle	20.500.14123/1324
Creator	Wagner, Joachim 0000-0001-6058-4536 129798215
Abstract	This paper contributes to the flourishing literature on exports and productivity by using a unique newly available panel of exporting establishments from the manufacturing sector of Germany from 1995 to 2004 to test three hypotheses derived from a theoretical model by Hopenhayn (Econometrica 1992): (H1) Firms that stop exporting in year t were in t-1 less 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 results for West Germany support all three hypotheses, this is only the case for (H1) and (H2) in East Germany.
Language	English
Keywords	Export; Productivity; Export; Produktivität
Year of publication in PubData	2007
Publishing type	First publication
Publication version	Published version
Date issued	2007-08-20
Creation context	Research
Published by	Medien- und Informationszentrum, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
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