Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/126544 
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Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper Series in Economics No. 344
Publisher: 
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Lüneburg
Abstract: 
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 lowincome countries and either productivity or R&D intensity is never in line with the results from Crinò and Epifani (2012).
Subjects: 
exports
low-income destinations
productivity
innovation
EFIGE data
JEL: 
F14
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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