Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/73181 
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Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper Series in Economics No. 250
Publisher: 
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Lüneburg
Abstract: 
This paper contributes to the literature by comparing the productivity distribution for firms with various numbers of goods traded and various numbers of countries traded with from Germany, one of the leading actors on the world market for goods. It applies a non-parametric test for first-order stochastic dominance of one productivity distribution over another. We find that the larger the number of goods exported or imported, and the larger the number of countries exported to or imported from, the higher is the productivity of the firms - not only on average, but over the whole productivity distribution. This is in line with implications of recent theoretical models of multi-product multi-country trading firms.
Subjects: 
Exports
imports
number of goods
number of countries
Germany
JEL: 
F14
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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