Kiel Working Papers, Kiel Institute for World Economics
No 1735:
Are Newly Exporting Firms more Innovative? Findings from Matched Spanish Innovators
Aoife Hanley and Joaquín Monreal-Pérez
Abstract: The prevalence of Internet-based sales by exporters vs.
non-exporters is highlighted in a recent World Bank Report (Ferro, 2011)
suggesting the use of sophisticated processes when selling overseas. We
investigate the count of new process/ product innovations for a group of
newly exporting Spanish firms vs. a non-exporter control group. We use
propensity score kernel matching and difference-in-differences to help deal
with endogenous exporting, sunk exporting costs and common macroeconomic
shocks. Our results confirm that selection into exporting is largely driven
by productivity and industry technological differences, consistent with
exporting sunk costs. We find some evidence of ‘technology upgrading’
through higher contemporaneous process innovation rates
Keywords: exporting, innovation, Propensity Score Kernel Matching, Learning-by-exporting; (follow links to similar papers)
JEL-Codes: F14,; F23,; O3; (follow links to similar papers)
9 pages, September 2011
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