Trade Liberalization, Export and Product Innovation
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| author | Sun, Sizhong |
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| contents | This paper studies firms' optimal response to a trade liberalization shock in terms of export and product innovation both theoretically and empirically. We find that trade liberalization, namely China's WTO accession, reduces trade cost and promotes export, which in turn incentivizes firms to innovate as the marginal benefit of innovation for exporting firms is higher than that for non-exporting firms. In addition, as a firm starts to innovate, it predicts to have a higher probability of moving to a better productivity state and can save the entry cost of innovation in the future, resulting in additional dynamic benefits. Such an innovation-promotion effect is an unintended consequence of trade liberalization. |
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| spellingShingle | Trade Liberalization, Export and Product Innovation Sun, Sizhong General Economics Economics This paper studies firms' optimal response to a trade liberalization shock in terms of export and product innovation both theoretically and empirically. We find that trade liberalization, namely China's WTO accession, reduces trade cost and promotes export, which in turn incentivizes firms to innovate as the marginal benefit of innovation for exporting firms is higher than that for non-exporting firms. In addition, as a firm starts to innovate, it predicts to have a higher probability of moving to a better productivity state and can save the entry cost of innovation in the future, resulting in additional dynamic benefits. Such an innovation-promotion effect is an unintended consequence of trade liberalization. |
| title | Trade Liberalization, Export and Product Innovation |
| topic | General Economics Economics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.23825 |