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R&D Investment, Exporting, and Productivity Dynamics
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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 on the plant's future productivity. This in turn drives more plants to self-select into both activities, contributing to further productivity gains. Simulations of an expansion of the export market are shown to increase both exporting and R&D investment and generate a gradual within-plant productivity improvement. (JEL D24, F14, G31, L63, O31, O33)
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- Authors
- Aw, B. Y., Roberts, M. J., & Xu, D. Y.
- Venue
- American Economic Review
- Publisher
- American Economic Association
- Published
- 2011-06-01
- Volume
- 101
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 1312-1344
- ISSN
- 0002-8282 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1985984948
- Cited by
- 708
- References
- 31
- FWCI
- 103.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
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