Trading Many Goods with Many Countries: Exporters and Importers from German Manufacturing Industries

Wagner, Joachim

doi:10.1142/9789813109698_0014

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“…Vogel and Wagner (2010) show that similar arguments can be made with regard to imports and productivity. Empirical evidence for Germany reported in Wagner (2012b) is fully in line with this.…”

Section: Empirical Hypothesessupporting

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Active on Many Foreign Markets: A Portrait of German Multi-market Exporters and Importers from Manufacturing Industries

Wagner

2018

Jahrbücher Für Nationalökonomie Und Statistik

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This paper uses information on more than 160 million export and import transactions by German firms from 2009 to 2012 to document the decisive role of multi-market traders that are active on many foreign markets, where a market is defined as a combination of a good traded and a country traded with. Using merged information from trade transactions and from surveys conducted by the statistical offices it is shown that, controlling for detailed industry affiliation, the number of foreign markets a firm from manufacturing industries is active on as an exporter or importer is higher in firms that are larger, older and foreign owned and that have higher labor productivity, human capital intensity and R&D intensity. With the exception of labor productivity these results are valid ceteris paribus, too. All these results from a descriptive empirical investigation are in line with hypotheses that are derived from the literature on the links between firm characteristics and the extensive margins of foreign trade.

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Active on Many Foreign Markets: A Portrait of German Multi-market Exporters and Importers from Manufacturing Industries

Wagner

2018

Jahrbücher Für Nationalökonomie Und Statistik

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“…This implies that firms that export to a larger number of foreign markets and a larger number of different goods have to be more productive, because at least some of the extra costs mentioned (e.g., preparing a user's manual in another language, or checking the relevant national laws) recur for each foreign market served and for each good exported. Empirical evidence for Germany reported in Wagner (2012b) is fully in line with this.…”

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R&D Activities and Extensive Margins of Exports in Manufacturing Enterprises: First Evidence for Germany

Wagner

2017

The International Trade Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. This paper uses a new tailor-made data set to investigate for the first time the links between innovation activities (measured by employees active in research and development) and the extensive margins of exports (number of destination countries; number of goods exported) for manufacturing enterprises in Germany, the third largest exporter of goods on the world market. It documents that more innovative firms outperform less innovative firms at both margins of exports -they export more goods and they export to a larger number of countries. All these differences are statistically highly significant and large from an economic point of view. Terms of use: Documents inKeywords: Extensive margins of exports, Germany, innovation, research and development JEL Classification: F14 * All computations were done at the Research Data Centre of the Statistical Office of BerlinBrandenburg in Berlin. The firm-level data used are strictly confidential but not exclusive; see http://www.forschungsdatenzentrum.de/datenzugang.asp for information on how to access the data.

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“…This fact is documented for a number of countries, including Belgium (Muuls and Pisu 2009), Denmark (Eriksson et al 2009), France (Eaton et al 2004), Germany (Wagner 2012d), the United States (Bernard et al 2009b) and for Brazil, Chile, Denmark and Norway (Arkolakis and Muendler 2013). (Cebeci and Fernandes 2015), the United States (Bernard et al 2009a), and for 38 developing plus 7 developed countries by Cebeci et al (2012).…”

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Trading Many Goods with Many Countries: Exporters and Importers from German Manufacturing Industries

Cited by 6 publications

References 7 publications

Active on Many Foreign Markets: A Portrait of German Multi-market Exporters and Importers from Manufacturing Industries

Active on Many Foreign Markets: A Portrait of German Multi-market Exporters and Importers from Manufacturing Industries

R&D Activities and Extensive Margins of Exports in Manufacturing Enterprises: First Evidence for Germany

A survey of empirical studies using transaction level data on exports and imports

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