Higher productivity in importing German manufacturing firms: Self-selection, learning from importing, or both?

Review of World Economics

Volumn 145, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 641-665

  Vogel, Alexander ^a   Wagner, Joachim ^a  

^a LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Enterprise panel data; Exports; Germany; Imports; Productivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 75549086568     PISSN: 16102878     EISSN: 16102886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10290-009-0031-4     Document Type: Article

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