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Higher productivity in importing German manufacturing firms : self-selection, learning from importing, or both?

Vogel, Alexander (contributor); Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2008

-way traders do have the highest premia, followed by firms that only export, while firms that only import have the smallest …

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Labor market imperfections, markups and productivity in multinationals and exporters

Dobbelaere, Sabien; Kiyota, Kōzō - 2017

find export status to be positively correlated with both product market power (markups) and market power consolidated on …

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Exports, foreign direct investments and productivity : are services firms different?

Wagner, Joachim - 2011

is evidence that firms with fdi are less productive than firms that export. -- exports ; foreign direct investments …

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Self-Selection into export markets by business services firms : evidence from France, Germany and the United Kingdom

Temouri, Yama; Vogel, Alexander; Wagner, Joachim - 2010

This study reports results from an empirical investigation of business services sector firms that (start to) export … and productivity hold in the years before the export start, which indicates self-selection into exporting of more … relationship between profitability and starting to export is found. …

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Why are Africa's female entrepreneurs not playing the export game? : evidence from Ghana

Ackah, Charles; Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife; Hornok, … - 2020

We explore the export performance of Africa's underperforming female entrepreneurs, using the Ghanaian ISSER-IGC panel … of key business constraints, across both male and female entrepreneurs. We find that females are less likely to export …

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The impact of trade liberalization on firms' product and labor market power

Dobbelaere, Sabien; Wiersma, Quint - 2020

This paper examines the impact of trade liberalization on firms' product and labor market power. We estimate the prevalence and intensity of firm-level price-cost markups and either wage markups or wage markdowns. We take the dependence between these model-consistent measures of product and...

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Robust estimation of linear fixed effects panel data models with an application to the exporter productivity premium

Verardi, Vincenzo; Wagner, Joachim - 2010

In empirical studies it often happens that some variables for some units are far away from the other observations in the sample. These extreme observations, or outliers, often have a large impact on the results of statistical analyses – conclusions based on a sample with and without these...

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Relational contracts and the economic well-being of nations

Kukharskyy, Bohdan; Pflüger, Michael - 2010

Informal long-term relationships and mutual confidence play a crucial role in modern economies in at least two dimensions. First, the performance of firms is strongly affected by their capacity to solve organizational questions effectively and this capacity is apparently strongly related to...

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The exporter productivity premium along the productivity distribution : first evidence from a quantile regression approach for fixed effects data models

Powell, David; Wagner, Joachim - 2010

An emerging literature on international activities of heterogeneous firms documents that exporting firms are more productive than firms that only sell on the national market. This positive exporter productivity premium shows up in a large number of empirical studies after controlling for...

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Productivity premia for German manufacturing firms exporting to the Euro-area and beyond : first evidence from robust fixed effects estimations

Verardi, Vincenzo; Wagner, Joachim - 2010

-econometric studies for 16 different countries on the relationship between export destination and firm performance. (2) It reports … share of outliers. Using a "clean" sample without outliers the estimated productivity premium of firms that export to the … Euro-zone only is no longer much smaller that the premium of firms that export beyond the Euro-zone, too, and the premium …

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