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

Marco Grazzi, Nanditha Mathew, Daniele Moschella

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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Year of publication:	[2017]
Authors:	Grazzi, Marco ; Mathew, Nanditha ; Moschella, Daniele
Publisher:	Pisa, Italy : LEM, Laboratory of Economics and Management, Institute of Economics, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
Subject:	Export behavior \| Innovation \| Imported Inputs \| Trade policy \| India \| Indien \| Industrie \| Manufacturing industries \| Import \| Vorleistungen \| Intermediate goods \| Export \| Außenwirtschaftspolitik \| Foreign economic policy \| Außenhandel mit Industriegütern \| Manufactures trade \| Exportwirtschaft \| Export sector \| Unternehmenserfolg \| Firm performance