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A note on quality of a firm’s exports and distance to destination countries: First evidence from Germany

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  • Wagner, Joachim

    (Leuphana University Lueneburg, Germany, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), and Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies (CESIS), Stockholm, Sweden)

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This note uses a tailor-made new data set to investigate for the first time the link between the quality of a firm’s exports and the distance to destination countries for Germany. To anticipate the most important result, it is shown that the quality of exported goods and the distance to destination countries are not statistically positively correlated.

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  • Wagner, Joachim, 2014. "A note on quality of a firm’s exports and distance to destination countries: First evidence from Germany," Working Paper Series in Economics and Institutions of Innovation 369, Royal Institute of Technology, CESIS - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation Studies.
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    Exports; export quality; distance; Germany;
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    • F14 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Empirical Studies of Trade

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