Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/95902 
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Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper Series in Economics No. 292
Publisher: 
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Lüneburg
Abstract: 
A stylized fact from the emerging literature on the micro-econometrics of international trade and a central implication of the heterogeneous firm models from the new new trade theory is that exporters are more productive than non-exporters. However, many firms from the lower end of the productivity distribution are exporters. Germany is a case in point. A recent study reports that these low-productivity exporters are not marginal exporters defined according to the share of exports in total sales, or export participation over time, or the number of goods exported, or the number of countries exported to. This paper documents that low-productive exporters are competitive because they export high-quality goods. The quality of exports is much higher among exporters from the lower end of the productivity distribution than among highly productive exporters.
Subjects: 
Exports
productivity
low-productive exporters
export quality
JEL: 
F14
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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