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

By Alexander Vogel, Joachim Wagner. Social Science Research Network, 2008

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Exports, imports and firm survival: first evidence for manufacturing enterprises in Germany (2012, background): “More recently, empirical investigations started looking beyond exports and considered the links between imports and productivity (Vogel and Wagner 2010).”
Importing, Exporting, and Innovation in Developing Countries (2009, background): “Vogel and Wagner (2010) perform a similar analysis for German manufacturing firms.”
Firms’ exporting and importing activities: is there a two-way relationship? (2012, background): “…firm productivity and foreign sourcing has been provided in the case of Belgium (Muûls and Pisu 2009), Chile (Kasahara and Rodrigue 2008), Germany (Vogel and Wagner 2010), Ireland (Forlani 2011) Italy (Castellani et al. 2010; Conti et al. 2011), Spain (Augier et al. 2009; Farinas and…”