True versus spurious state dependence in firm performance: The case of German exports

Empirical Economics

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 207-228

  Kaiser, Ulrich ^a,b,c,d   Kongsted, Hans Christian ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b Copenhagen Business School ^*  (Denmark)

^c CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH ZEW   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Dynamic binary choice models; Export activity; Fixed effects; State dependence

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVELOPING WORLD; DISCRETE CHOICE ANALYSIS; ECONOMETRICS; EXPORT; HETEROGENEITY; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; MANUFACTURING; NUMERICAL MODEL;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 51649089919     PISSN: 03777332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00181-007-0149-y     Document Type: Article

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