2019/38 | LEM Working Paper Series | ||||||||||||||||
Tech on the ROC: Export Threshold and Technology Adoption Interacted |
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Stefano Costa, Federico Sallusti, Claudio Vicarelli and Davide Zurlo |
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ROC analysis; export threshold; technology adoption; extensive margin of exports.
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F14, L60, L11, O14
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Abstract | |||||||||||||||||
This paper analyses the potential mismatch between the conditions required for a
manufacturing firm to become exporter and the pattern of technology adoption within
the industry. The ‘export threshold’, which is estimated using the ROC methodology,
is the minimum combination of productivity and ‘economic size’ (a broader measure
of firm size) that firms need to achieve in order to access export markets. To consider
the pattern of technology adoption we also estimate a ‘technology line’. The relative
positioning of the ‘technology line’ and the export threshold generates a new
taxonomy of firms allowing for better policies for internationalization.
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