Export intensity and plant characteristics: What can we learn from quantile regression?

Review of World Economics

Volumn 142, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 195-203

  Wagner, Joachim ^a  

^a LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Exports; Heterogeneous firms; Quantile regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746903920     PISSN: 16102878     EISSN: 16102886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10290-006-0063-y     Document Type: Article

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