Does the Use of Imported Intermediates Increase Productivity? Plant-Level Evidence

By Joel B. Rodrigue, Hiroyuki Kasahara. 2008

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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Input-trade liberalization, export prices and quality upgrading (2015, positive): “, Kasahara and Rodrigue 2008, Halpern, Koren and Szeidl 2009). Bas (2012), Goldberg, Khandelwal, Pavnick and Topalova (2011), and Bas and Strauss-Kahn (2012) explore the impact of trade liberalization on the other attributes of the firms.”
Internationalization and Innovation of Firms: Evidence and Policy (2013, neutral): “Employees (20-49) 168 1,150 1,135 176 1,407 1,244 805 6,085”
The dynamics of trade and innovation: a joint approach (2009, background): “In this line, some recent papers have started to incorporate imports to explain efficiency heterogeneity across firms (e.g., Kasahara and Rodrigue, 2005; Altomonte and Békés, 2008; Castellani et al., 2008; and Fariñas and Martin, 2008, for Chilean, Hungarian, Italian and Spanish plants/firms,…”
Plants and Imported Inputs: New Facts and an Interpretation (2009, neutral): “…the possibility that imported inputs are higher-quality than domestic inputs: Adriana Schor ( 2004 ) , Mary Amiti and Jozef Konings ( 2007 ) , Hiroyuki Kasahara and Joel Rodrigue ( 2008 ) , László Halpern, Miklós Koren, and Adam Szeidl ( 2006 ) and Marc-Andreas Muendler ( 2004 ) . papers…”
On the Relationship between Quality and Productivity: Evidence from China's Accession to the WTO (2017, background): “4For instance, Amiti and Konings (2007) and Kasahara and Rodrigue (2008) for the impact on productivity.”
Structural identification of production functions (2006, background): “This paper has examined some of the recent literature on identification of production functions (Olley and Pakes (1996) and Levinsohn and Petrin (2003)) and argues that there may be significant collinearity problems in the first stages of these methods.”
Outsourcing versus integration at home or abroad and firm heterogeneity (2010, positive): “Two related strands of literature look at the effects of imported intermediate inputs on productivity (Amiti and Konings 2007, Kasahara and Rodrigue 2008, Görg et al. 2008) or at importers’ productivity premia (Bernard et al. 2007, Castellani et al. 2008, Muuls and Pisu 2009), respectively.”
Measuring the Bias of Technological Change (2014, positive): “While R&D is widely seen as amajor source of productivity growth (Griliches 1998), our empirical strategy extends to other sources such as technology adoption, learning by importing (Kasahara and Rodrigue 2008), and learning by exporting (De Loecker 2013).”