Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/174559
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
LEM Working Paper Series No. 2017/09
Publisher: 
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Pisa
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
Export behavior
Innovation
Imported Inputs
Trade policy
India
JEL: 
D22
F13
F14
L25
O33
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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