Imports, exports and the firm product scope: evidence from Turkey

Alessia Lo Turco and Daniela Maggioni

No 384, Working Papers from Universita' Politecnica delle Marche (I), Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali

Abstract: Making use of an original firm-product level dataset for Turkish manufacturing, we dissect the role of importing, exporting and the joint involvement in both activities on the firm product scope and new product introduction. Within the bulk of overall exports, we identify and focus on foreign sales of own produced goods. From the comparison between a single and a multiple treatment approach, it emerges that the simultaneous entry in the import and export markets delivers the highest innovation rate. Even if we disclose the existence of important complementarities between the two trade activities, starting to export appears as the real driver of firm product innovation. On the contrary and differently from previous evidence, when moving to a multi-treatment setting, the impact of importing fades away.

Keywords: Firm trade; Multiple Propensity Score Matching; Single Propensity ScoreMatching; product innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D22 F14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 37
Date: 2012-10
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