TY - JOUR

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 - Crinò 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 fro m Crinò and Epifani (2012).

AB - Crinò 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 fro m Crinò and Epifani (2012).

KW - Economics

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 35

SP - 2409

EP - 2417

JO - Economics Bulletin

JF - Economics Bulletin

SN - 1545-2921

IS - 4

ER -