Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/57157 
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Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper Series in Economics No. 227
Publisher: 
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Lüneburg
Abstract: 
This paper is a non-technical introduction to the use of three micro-econometric tools that have only recently been applied in empirical investigations of the links between international firm activities and firm performance. It shows why it is important to use these methods, how to use them in practice and which new insights are found in empirical applications. Topics include the role of extremely different firms (or outliers) in the computation of performance premia of internationally active firms; different performance premia over the distribution of the performance variable when unobserved heterogeneity matters; and the analysis of causal effects of different intensities of international firm activity on firm performance.
Subjects: 
robust fixed effects estimation
fixed-effects quantile regression
generalized propensity score
international firm activity
firm performance
JEL: 
F14
C21
C23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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