The Impact of R&D Activities on Exports of German Business Services Enterprises: First Evidence from a Continuous Treatment Approach

Helmut Fryges, Alexander Vogel and Joachim Wagner ()

Chapter 15 in Microeconometric Studies of Firms' Imports and Exports:Advanced Methods of Analysis and Evidence from German Enterprises, 2021, pp 265-285 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: This study uses newly available representative data from German business services firms and a continuous treatment approach based on the generalised propensity score to test for a causal effect of R&D activities (measured by the share of engineers and natural scientists in all employees) on the share of exports in total sales. We find evidence for a positive and statistically significant but small causal effect. This result is in line with the (non-causal) results reported in Vogel and Wagner (2014) based on regression models with and without control for unobserved time-invariant firm characteristics. The bottom line, then, is that R&D activity does matter for success of German business services firms on export markets — but not much.

Keywords: International Trade; Exports; Imports; Microeconometrics; Firm Level Data; Panel Data; Transaction Data; Cross-Country Studies; Germany; Productivity; Trade in Services (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F02 F1 F13 F23 M16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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