Efficiency, innovation, and imported inputs: Determinants of export performance among Indian manufacturing firms

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This paper investigates the determinants of export behavior among Indian manufacturing firms, focusing in particular on the role of technology, cost and imported intermediate inputs. Our evidence suggests that innovation, in particular R&D, positively affects both firms' probability to export and firms' export volumes. We also find that imported intermediate inputs, incorporating foreign technology, play an important role in expanding export activities of firms. On the other hand, we find that higher productivity or lower unit labour costs are not systematically associated with the probability to enter export market, but they do positively affect export volumes.

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• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: LEM Working Paper Series ; No. 2017/09

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis ; Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations ; Empirical Studies of Trade ; Firm Performance: Size, Diversification, and Scope ; Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
• Thema: Export behavior ; Innovation ; Imported Inputs ; Trade policy ; India

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Grazzi, Marco ; Mathew, Nanditha ; Moschella, Daniele
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM)
• (wo): Pisa
• (wann): 2017

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• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/174559