The role of technology in market shares dynamics

Amable, Bruno; Verspagen, Bart

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“…The results are broadly supportive of the evidence provided in Fagerberg (1988), Dosi et al (1990, Amendola et al (1993), and Amable and Verspagen (1995). In particular, they support the hypothesis that technology advantages dominate over cost-related factors in shaping international competitiveness.…”

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confidence: 79%

“…On the macro and sectoral sides, the empirical findings in Fagerberg (1988), Dosi et al (1990), Amendola et al (1993), Amable and Verspagen (1995), and Laursen and Meliciani (2010) have indeed confirmed that international pattern of sectoral absolute advantages/disadvantages are a fundamental determinant of sectoral competitiveness as captured by aggregate and sectoral market shares and their dynamics. And, conversely, that same evidence has largely vindicated Kaldor's original intuition that wage costs at current exchange rates might be irrelevant or even have a perverse long-term impact (Kaldor, 1978).…”

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Technology and costs in international competitiveness: From countries and sectors to firms

2015

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This paper examines the determinants of international competitiveness at the level of sectors and firms. First, we address the relation between cost-related and technological competition in a sample of fifteen OECD countries. Results suggest that the countries' sectoral market shares are indeed mainly shaped by technological factors (proxied by investment intensity and patents) while cost advantages/disadvantages do not seem to play any significant role. Next, we attempt to identify the underlying dynamics at the firm level. We do that for a single country, Italy, using a large panel of Italian firms, over nearly two decades. Results show that also at micro level in most sectors investments and patents correlate positively both with the probability of being an exporter and with the capacity to acquire and to increase export market shares. The evidence on costs is more mixed. A simple measure like total labour compensation is positively correlated with the probability of being an exporter, while unit labour costs show a negative correlation only in some manufacturing sectors.

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Section: The Macro Evidencesupporting

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Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 65%

Technology and costs in international competitiveness: From countries and sectors to firms

2015

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“…R&D and patents, respectively) and the trade performance of different industries. This set of studies has pointed out that sectoral innovative activity is indeed a major determinant of international competitiveness, and that therefore, in a long run perspective, non-price factors are significantly more important than price related variables [65,66,67,68,69,70,71,28,72,73,74,75].…”

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Innovation and the competitiveness of industries: Comparing the mainstream and the evolutionary approaches

Castellacci

2008

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

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The study of the relationships between innovation and the competitiveness of industries is an important topic for both, academic research and economic policy. The huge economics literature flourished in the last couple of decades on the subject broadly falls into two distinct research traditions, namely the mainstream R&D spillovers approach and the evolutionary economics view. Both traditions agree on the important role played by innovation and the intersectoral diffusion of advanced knowledge for the competitive performance of industrial sectors. Behind this general agreement, however, the two approaches are radically different. This paper shows that, at a deeper level of analysis, the mainstream and evolutionary views do indeed differ with respect to their theoretical foundations, empirical research and policy implications. In a nutshell, while the mainstream R&D spillover approach is inspired by a traditional view of economic policy based on a market-oriented approach, the evolutionary view is on the contrary consistent with the idea that institutional arrangements and policy interventions do indeed play a fundamental role for shaping innovation patterns and their impacts on the competitiveness of industries.

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“…Fagerberg (1988) D'autres auteurs (voir notamment Amable et Verspagen, 1995) utilisent les brevets déposés comme proxy de l'innovation. D'autres proxys de l'innovation sont utilisés dans la littérature empirique : la part des secteurs de haute et moyenne technologie dans la production totale du pays (Barrell et Pomerantz, 2007), le stock net de capital fixe dans le secteur manufacturier (Athanasoglou et Bardaka, 2010) Dans notre étude, les équations traditionnelles seront améliorées par le biais d'un benchmark de la compétitivité globale : le WCY.…”

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Comment mesurer la compétitivité structurelle des pays dans les équations d’exportation ?

Chiappini¹

2011

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Cet article étudie l’impact de l’introduction d’une mesure élargie de la compétitivité structurelle dans les équations d’exportation tirées du modèle d’Armington (1969). À partir d’un modèle enpanelcomposé de 11 pays de la zone euro sur la période 1996-2008 et d’un indicateur de compétitivité globale, nous montrons que la compétitivité structurelle ne peut se résumer au seul facteur innovation. Nous montrons, en outre, que la prise en compte de facteurs de développement financier, de développement humain, d’efficacité des entreprises et d’infrastructure des pays considérés permet une meilleure modélisation des équations d’exportation. Cette étude apporte donc un nouvel éclairage sur les différences de performances commerciales au sein de la zone euro grâce à une mesure plus élargie de la compétitivité structurelle. Il est notamment souligné que la surperformance allemande provient d’une compétitivité-coût accrue conjuguée à des produits innovants mais également d’une politique fiscale avantageuse et d’une plus grande facilité d’accès au crédit pour les entreprises.

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The role of technology in market shares dynamics

Cited by 160 publications

References 13 publications

Technology and costs in international competitiveness: From countries and sectors to firms

Technology and costs in international competitiveness: From countries and sectors to firms

Innovation and the competitiveness of industries: Comparing the mainstream and the evolutionary approaches

Comment mesurer la compétitivité structurelle des pays dans les équations d’exportation ?

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