Domestic transport infrastructure and firms’ export market participation

Albarrán, Pedro; Carrasco, Raquel; Holl, Adelheid

doi:10.1007/s11187-011-9393-9

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“…The design of the SBSS dataset from its outset in 1990 combined exhaustiveness and random sampling criteria, to ensure the representativeness of Spanish manufacturing firms. All firms with more than 200 employees were surveyed, 60% of which completed the survey; firms employing more than 10 workers (and fewer than 200) were sampled randomly by industry and size strata: the response rate for this latter category of firms was 5% (Albarran et al, ). Over the years, SEPI Foundation has paid special attention to maintain the representativeness of the panel dataset with respect to the population of reference.…”

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Learning to license technology: the role of experience and workforce's skills in Spanish manufacturing firms

Bianchi

Lejarraga

2016

R & D Management

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Firms increasingly pursue technology licensing for appropriating economic returns from their R&D investments. Despite this tendency, extracting revenues from licensing remains a challenge for most firms. This article explores the role of task‐specific experience and of workforce skills as determinants of superior licensing volume. The rationale is that these factors contribute to the development of a desorptive capacity that allows companies to overcome the complexities posed by technology licensing. Using panel data of Spanish manufacturing firms, we find that prior experience in licensing positively affects licensing revenues at a decreasing rate. These learning‐by‐doing effects are strengthened when firms have a higher proportion of their workforce endowed with advanced skills, whereas they are reduced when firms have a higher proportion of low‐skilled employees. These results contribute to licensing and open innovation research by partly specifying the nature and anatomy of desorptive capacity and by highlighting the key role of intellectual human capital in licensing, whose contribution depends on the skills level. They also inform managers on the mechanisms that can enhance their firms’ licensing volume.

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Learning to license technology: the role of experience and workforce's skills in Spanish manufacturing firms

Bianchi

Lejarraga

2016

R & D Management

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“…The problem is that while the literature on the impact of trade costs (in general) on international trade is abundant, there are very few studies that empirically verify the relationship between international trade and domestic road infrastructure. For instance, Albarran et al (2013) find that development of the latter increases probability of exporting for firms in Spain. Coşar and Demir (2016) show that improvement of domestic road transport network is positively correlated with international trade in the case of Turkey.…”

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Accessibility in the regional CGE framework: the effects of major transport infrastructure investments in Poland

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Since its EU accession, Poland has invested strongly in the development of fast road transport network. As a result, the total length of modern, high-speed roads has increased from around 500 km in 2005 to over 3000 km in 2015. Yet, while the positive impact of transport infrastructure investment on overall accessibility is unquestionable there are no studies that assess its influence on economic development of particular regions. This paper applies a regional dynamic CGE model to measure the effects of big transport infrastructure investments in Polish NUTS2 regions. We use data on both investment spending and accessibility improvement (expressed as a reduction in transport margins) in order to distinguish between possible short and long term impacts. We find that there exist significant disparities in the impact between regions with high share of major road infrastructure investment undertaken by private investors and the ones that relied fully on public funding. In the case of the former, the lack of analyzed investment would lead to relatively significant decrease in real GDP or average employment. In the case of the latter, the impact of major road infrastructure investment is almost negligible.

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“…Using French firm‐level data, Crozet and Koenig () detect a significant negative effect of interior distance on the number of exporters and average export values. Albarran et al () show that longer domestic travel time reduces the probability of exporting among small‐ and medium‐sized firms in Spain. Martincus and Blyde () identify a causal effect of within‐country travel distance on firms’ export values in Chile using an earthquake as a natural experiment.…”

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Regional variations in exporters’ productivity premium: Theory and evidence

Okubo

Tomiura

2019

Rev International Economics

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The international trade literature confirms that the average productivity of exporters is higher than that of nonexporters, while economic geography studies establish that urban firms tend to be more productive than rural ones. By introducing region‐specific transportation costs in a Melitz‐type heterogeneous‐firm trade model, the theory predicts that the minimum threshold productivity level for export is higher but that for survival by serving the local market is lower in the periphery region than in the core. Using Japanese plant‐level panel data, we find evidence supporting the theoretical prediction that exporters in the peripheral regions, especially those distant from the core, have large productivity premiums.

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Domestic transport infrastructure and firms’ export market participation

Cited by 27 publications

References 73 publications

Learning to license technology: the role of experience and workforce's skills in Spanish manufacturing firms

Learning to license technology: the role of experience and workforce's skills in Spanish manufacturing firms

Accessibility in the regional CGE framework: the effects of major transport infrastructure investments in Poland

Regional variations in exporters’ productivity premium: Theory and evidence

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