Productivity and exporting status of manufacturing firms: Evidence from quantile regressions

Review of World Economics

Volumn 142, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 675-694

  Yasar, Mahmut ^a,b   Nelson, Carl H ^c   Rejesus, Roderick ^c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Exporters; Manufacturing firms; Productivity; Quantile regressions

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845930094     PISSN: 16102878     EISSN: 16102886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10290-006-0088-2     Document Type: Article

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