Aw, Bee Yan; Roberts, Mark J.; Xu, Daniel Yi - In: American Economic Review 101 (2011) 4, pp. 1312-44
This paper estimates a dynamic structural model of a producer's decision to invest in R&D and export, allowing both choices to endogenously affect the future path of productivity. Using plant-level data for the Taiwanese electronics industry, both activities are found to have a positive effect...