We estimate the effect of the introduction of robots on the intensive and extensive margins of exports using a sample of Spanish manufacturing firms over the period 1994-2014. The empirical strategy used to identify the causal impact of robot adoption on the firm level export performance...

The relationship between openness and economic growth in developing countries has been fully analysed by a large number of empirical papers. Primary attention has been given to the advantages of an outward-oriented strategy and to the role of exports in economic performance. Nevertheless, the...