@techreport{Nitsch2008another,
abstract = {International trade patterns at the product level are surprisingly dynamic. The majority of trade relationships exist for just a few, often only one to three, years. In this paper, I examine empirically the duration in German import trade at the 8-digit product level from 1995 to 2005. I find that survival probabilities are affected by exporter characteristics, product type and market structure. Specifically, I show that the duration of exporting a product to Germany is longer for products obtained from countries that are economically large and geographically close to Germany; for products with large trade value and a low elasticity of substitution; and for trade pairs that command a large share of the German import market and are characterized by two-way trade.},
address = {Berlin},
author = {Volker Nitsch},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
isbn = {3938369884},
keywords = {F14; F19; C14; C41; 330; Survival; product; relationship; pattern; Import; Produkt; Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen; Dauer; Au\ss{}enhandelsstruktur; Deutschland},
language = {eng},
number = {2008/17},
publisher = {Freie Univ., Fachbereich Wirtschaftswiss.},
title = {Die another day: duration in German import trade},
type = {Diskussionsbeitr\"{a}ge des Fachbereichs Wirtschaftswissenschaft der Freien Universit\"{a}t Berlin},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/28084},
year = {2008}
}
