Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/102678 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper Series in Economics No. 308
Publisher: 
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Lüneburg
Abstract: 
This note uses comparable representative data for manufacturing firms from five European countries (Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom) to investigate the links between firm age and the participation of the firms in export, the share of exports in total sales, the number of countries exported to, and the participation in import. The big picture revealed is in line with the theoretical considerations. Older firms tend to be more often exporters and importers, they export to more different destination countries, and they export a higher share of their total sales in three out of five countries.
Subjects: 
Exports
imports
firm age
trade margins
EFIGE data
JEL: 
F14
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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