their productivity and innovation ability. This study shows that the effect of export duration on the product quality of …

This paper classifies innovation as quality-improving or cost-reducing and estimates a dynamic model incorporating firm … export, quality innovation, and cost innovation decisions. Estimation results show that export, quality innovation, and cost … innovation increase next-period firm productivity by 1.39%, 1.23%, and 1.27%, respectively. Additionally, quality innovation …

Innovation is a key driver of firm productivity, especially in the electronics industry. This paper looks into the … nature of innovation by categorizing it into quality-improving and costreducing types and estimating a dynamic structural … model incorporating firm export, quality innovation, and cost innovation decisions. Using plant-level data from the Chinese …