Exports and Firm Profitability: Quality matters!

Joachim Wagner ()

No 352, Working Paper Series in Economics and Institutions of Innovation from Royal Institute of Technology, CESIS - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies

Abstract: This paper uses a tailor-made newly available data set to investigate for the first time the links between profitability and the quality of exports in enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany, one of the leading actors on the world market for goods. The paper demonstrates that exporters of high-quality goods tend to be more profitable.

Keywords: Exports; export quality; profitability; Germany (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 15 pages
Date: 2014-03-19
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