%0 Report
        %A Wagner, Joachim
        %T Why More West than East German Firms Export
        %D 2007
        %8 2007 Mar
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 2656
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp2656
        %X Using unique new data and a recently introduced non-linear decomposition technique this paper shows that the huge difference in the propensity to export between West and East German plants is to a large part due to differences in firm size and human capital intensity.
        %K West Germany
%K micro data
%K exports
%K East Germany