%0 Report
        %A Wagner, Joachim
        %T Productivity and Size of the Export Market: Evidence for West and East German Plants, 2004
        %D 2007
        %8 2007 Mar
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 2661
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp2661
        %X Using unique recently released nationally representative high-quality data at the plant level, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between productivity and size of the export market for Germany, a leading actor on the world market for manufactured goods. It documents that firms that export to countries inside the euro-zone are more productive than firms that sell their products in Germany only, but less productive than firms that export to countries outside the euro-zone, too. This is in line with the hypothesis that export markets outside the euro-zone have higher entry costs that can only by paid by more productive firms.
        %K exports
%K productivity
%K Germany
%K micro data