The quality of imported intermediate inputs and firms’ innovation activities in China

Jianjun Zhong

Economics Letters, 2023, vol. 222, issue C

Abstract: Using firm-level data in China from 2000 to 2009, this paper studies the connection between the quality of imported intermediate inputs and firms’ innovation activities. Our estimations find that importing high-quality intermediate inputs tends to increase the quantity of firms’ invention patent. The private firms, firms engaged in processing trade, and firms importing from high-income economies benefit more from importing high-quality intermediate inputs. Our results are supported by a series of robustness checks.

Keywords: Imported intermediate inputs; Input quality; Innovation; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F14 F63 O31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2022.110915

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