Share of exports to low-income countries, productivity, and innovation: A replication study with firm-level data from six European countries
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Lüneburg: Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg, 2015. (University of Lüneburg Working Paper Series in Economics; No. 344).
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TY - UNPB
T1 - Share of exports to low-income countries, productivity, and innovation
T2 - A replication study with firm-level data from six European countries
AU - Wagner, Joachim
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Crino and Epifani (2012) report and discuss two empirical regularities they find in a representative sample of Italian manufacturing firms. First, there is a negative correlation between firms' productivity and their export share to low-income destinations. Second, there is a negative correlation between firms' innovation activity and their export share to low-income destinations. This note uses recently available comparable high quality firm level data for six European countries (including Italy) and similarly specified empirical models in an attempt to replicate these results. Replication failed completely. The link found between the share of exports to low-income countries and either productivity or R&D intensity is never in line with the results from Crino and Epifani (2012).
AB - Crino and Epifani (2012) report and discuss two empirical regularities they find in a representative sample of Italian manufacturing firms. First, there is a negative correlation between firms' productivity and their export share to low-income destinations. Second, there is a negative correlation between firms' innovation activity and their export share to low-income destinations. This note uses recently available comparable high quality firm level data for six European countries (including Italy) and similarly specified empirical models in an attempt to replicate these results. Replication failed completely. The link found between the share of exports to low-income countries and either productivity or R&D intensity is never in line with the results from Crino and Epifani (2012).
KW - Economics
KW - low-income destinations
KW - Exports
KW - productivity
KW - innovation
KW - EFIGE data
M3 - Working papers
T3 - University of Lüneburg Working Paper Series in Economics
BT - Share of exports to low-income countries, productivity, and innovation
PB - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg
CY - Lüneburg
ER -