Influencing Factors on Exports. How does the Level of Eucation, Research Intensity and Productivity affect a Country's Exports in the Years 2015 to 2017?

Seminar paper from the year 2021 in the subject Economics - Statistics and Methods, grade: 1,3, University of Applied Sciences Constanze, language: English, abstract: International trade takes place every day, influential events affect trade transactions and Germany was considered the export world champion for a time. We want to know what is behind individual factors, why they are important and why exports do not only rely on high-performance products. We further want to find out whether there is a differential impact on exports between countries at different stages of development.

In order to keep within the scope of this work and to ensure the quantity of the statistical investigation, the years from 2015 to 2017 are taken up. The three years are considered together, and no annual differentiation is made. Since there are many indicators of exports, the aim of this work is to answer the following specific research question: How does the level of education, research intensity and productivity affect a country¿s exports in the years 2015 to 2017?

To answer this question, we first look at our data description in Chapter 2. In this section, we define each variable used in the analysis and show its historical development. This is followed by our economic analysis in Chapter 3. First, our developed hypotheses are presented before our analysis is then taken up. The following chapter briefly reviews our hypotheses and evaluates the analysis. Finally, in Chapter 5, a conclusion is drawn with an answer to the research question and an outlook into the future