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What Explains German Export Performances? Spatial Econometric Evidences: 1995 to 2014

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  • Wen Yang
  • Yi-Cheng Liu
  • Chao-Cheng Mai

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German exports achieved outstanding performances, yet there is lack of research utilizing spatial econometric evidences. This paper explores four explanations and evaluates their empirical contributions: (i) German exports were highly correlated to its imports. Thus, its exports built upon bilateral trade flows. (ii) German exported to countries with high GDP per capita with the capability and the demand of high-quality and less price-elastic goods. (iii) It exported to countries with economic integration with other countries such as free trade agreements. (iv) Its exports broadened from Europe to other countries in America and the Asia Pacific region with increasing total export-volume growth. Thus, German exports benefited from the free trade flow to a few EU member countries, those are close geographically and culturally to Germany. The empirical evidence also points out that the changing geospatial distribution of German exports is another key factors to its export success. The spatial Durbin model was identified to be the best fit model of all after a series of tests. Decisive determinants of its exports performance were found through the estimation besides geospatial analyses of its exports by employing Moran’s I.

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  • Wen Yang & Yi-Cheng Liu & Chao-Cheng Mai, 2017. "What Explains German Export Performances? Spatial Econometric Evidences: 1995 to 2014," International Business Research, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 10(9), pages 17-30, September.
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    spatial econometrics; spatial effects; German exports distribution; exports determinants;
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    • R00 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General - - - General
    • Z0 - Other Special Topics - - General

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