Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/57163 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper Series in Economics No. 182
Publisher: 
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Lüneburg
Abstract: 
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 observed and unobserved firm characteristics in regression models including firm fixed effects. These studies test for a difference in productivity between exporters and non-exporters at the conditional mean of the productivity distribution. However, if firms are heterogeneous, it is possible that the size of the premium varies over the productivity distribution. In this paper we apply a newly developed estimator for fixed-effects quantile regression models to estimate the exporter productivity premium at quantiles of the productivity distribution for manufacturing enterprises in Germany, one of the leading actors in the world market for goods. We show that the premium decreases over the quantiles' a dimension of firm heterogeneity that cannot be detected through mean regression.
Subjects: 
exporter productivity premium
quantile regression
fixed effects
JEL: 
F14
C21
C23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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