TY - JOUR

T1 - R&D Activities and Extensive Margins of Exports in Manufacturing Enterprises

T2 - First Evidence for Germany

AU - Wagner, Joachim

PY - 2017/5/27

Y1 - 2017/5/27

N2 - This article uses a new, tailor-made data set to investigate for the first time the links between innovation activities (measured by employees active in research and development) and the extensive margins of exports (number of destination countries; number of goods exported) for manufacturing enterprises in Germany, the third largest exporter of goods on the world market. It documents that more innovative firms outperform less innovative firms at both margins of exports—they export more goods, and they export to a larger number of countries. All of these differences are statistically highly significant and large from an economic point of view.

AB - This article uses a new, tailor-made data set to investigate for the first time the links between innovation activities (measured by employees active in research and development) and the extensive margins of exports (number of destination countries; number of goods exported) for manufacturing enterprises in Germany, the third largest exporter of goods on the world market. It documents that more innovative firms outperform less innovative firms at both margins of exports—they export more goods, and they export to a larger number of countries. All of these differences are statistically highly significant and large from an economic point of view.

KW - Economics, empirical/statistics

KW - Extensive margins of exports

KW - Germany

KW - innovation

KW - research and development

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85015765827&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1080/08853908.2017.1292874

DO - 10.1080/08853908.2017.1292874

M3 - Journal articles

AN - SCOPUS:85015765827

VL - 31

SP - 232

EP - 244

JO - The International Trade Journal

JF - The International Trade Journal

SN - 0885-3908

IS - 3

ER -