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The aim of this paper is to investigate whether the probability of ceasing to export is lower for firms that simultaneously import intermediate inputs and export (vertically specialized firms à la Hummels et al., The nature and growth of vertical specialization in world trade, 2001), once other...
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This paper examines the relationship between innovation and firms' dependence on external capital by analyzing the innovation activities of privately-held and publicly-traded firms We find that public firms in external finance dependent industries generate patents of higher quantity, quality,...
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<em>R&D and innovation in Italian manufacturing firms: some evidence from the MET 2009 survey</em> - This work provides results from a survey based on a very large sample (25,000 firms) of Italian manufacturing firms carried out by MET in 2008. This survey, completed straight before the deepening of the...
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This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly been estimated on cross-sectional data. It considers four nonlinear dynamic simultaneous equations models that include individual effects and idiosyncratic errors correlated...
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This study examines the relation between productivity and exports in Indonesian manufacturing firms by taking account … productivity and exports, suggesting the importance of R&D to Indonesian economic growth. It suggests also a two-way causality … between productivity and exports, implying the coexistence of self-selection and learning-by-exporting effects in Indonesian …
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Using the micro-level data on China’s export enterprises from 2005 to 2013, this paper discusses the impact of industrial robots on the quality upgrading of export products from two aspects: the change of enterprises’ costs and the structural effect of labor allocation. We find that there is...
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Previous research finds that the greater geographic mobility of foreign than native-born workers following economic shocks helps to facilitate local labor market adjustment to shifting regional economic conditions. We examine the role that immigration may have played in enabling U.S. commuting...
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This paper undertakes econometric analysis of innovation, learning, and exporting in automobiles and electronics firms in China using a large-scale 2003 dataset to identify the most appropriate innovation proxy. Drawing on recent literature on innovation and learning in developing countries, it...
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Purpose – This paper aims to examine the short-term structure of the impact of R&D investments on turnover growth, indicating differences between tangible and intangible investments. The main questions are whether R&D and capital investments accompany firms' growth in the subsequent periods...
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