The impact of R&D activities on exports of German business services enterprises: First evidence from a continuous treatment approach

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This study uses newly available representative data from German business services firms and a continuous treatment approach based on the generalized propensity score to test for a causal effect of R&D activities (measured by the share of engineers and natural scientists in all employees) on the share of exports in total sales. We find evidence for a positive and statistically significant but small causal effect. This result is in line with the (non-causal) results reported in Vogel and Wagner (2012) based on regression models with and without control for unobserved time-invariant firm characteristics. The bottom line, then, is that R&D activity does matter for success of German business services firms on export markets - but not much.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Working Paper Series in Economics ; No. 260

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Empirical Studies of Trade
• Subject: innovation ; export ; business services ; Germany ; Unternehmensdienstleistung ; Innovation ; Forschung ; Export ; Internationaler Dienstleistungsverkehr ; Deutschland

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Vogel, Alexander ; Wagner, Joachim
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre
• (where): Lüneburg
• (when): 2012

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/73172
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