Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/73155 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper Series in Economics No. 247
Publisher: 
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Lüneburg
Abstract: 
This paper uses newly available data for German business services firms to test a hypothesis derived by Bustos (AER 2011) in a model that explains the decision of heterogeneous firms to export and to engage in R&D. Using a non-parametric test for first order stochastic dominance it is shown that, in line with this hypothesis, the productivity distribution of firms with exports and R&D dominates that of exporters without R&D, which in turn dominates that of firms that neither export nor engage in R&D. These results are in line with findings for firms from manufacturing industries. The model, therefore, seems to be useful to guide empirical work on the relation between exports, R&D and productivity for services firms, too.
Subjects: 
Exports
R&D
productivity
business services firms
Germany
JEL: 
F14
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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