The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Firm Productivity and Innovation

Pian Shu and Claudia Steinwender

No 24715, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: This chapter reviews the empirical economics literature on the impact of trade liberalization on firms' innovation-related outcomes. We define and examine four types of shocks to trade flows: import competition, export opportunities, access to imported intermediates, and foreign input competition. Our review reveals interesting heterogeneities at the country and firm levels. In emerging countries, trade liberalization appears to spur productivity and innovation. In developed countries, export opportunities and access to imported intermediates tend to encourage innovation, but the evidence on import competition is mixed, especially for firms in the United States. At the firm level, the positive effects of trade on innovation are more pronounced at the initially more productive firms while the negative effects are more pronounced at the initially less productive firms.

JEL-codes: F13 F14 F61 O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-06
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Published as The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Firm Productivity and Innovation , Pian Shu, Claudia Steinwender. in Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 19 , Lerner and Stern. 2019

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