Enhancing export product quality through innovative cities: A firm-level quasi-natural experiment in China
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eap.2023.06.031" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eap.2023.06.031</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eap.2023.06.031" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.eap.2023.06.031</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Enhancing export product quality through innovative cities: A firm-level quasi-natural experiment in China
Original language description
China plays a significant role in the global product supply chain through its exports. To remain competitive, Chinese firms need to manufacture products cost-effectively. Revamping innovative cities can contribute to this goal, but empirical evidence in this area is limited. Therefore, this paper scrutinizes the innovative city pilot policy's consequences on firms' export performance and product quality. We employ the time-varying Difference in Difference (DID) model and harness a comprehensive firmby-product level database to estimate the co-movement between the pilot intervention and the performance of the export product. Based on the findings, we unveil that a smart intervened city can significantly boost firms' export product quality, which still holds after multiple robustness checks. Furthermore, innovative cities heighten the quality of the manufactured products when we consider firm-level (i.e., private, foreign, and ordinary trade enterprises), industry-level (i.e., low-polluting, capital-intensive, and technology-intensive industries), and regional (i.e., Middle, and Western regions) heterogeneities. In addition, the intervened smart city strategy impacts the efficacy of export product quality through policy and innovation-driven effects. Over and above, policymakers and experts should support state-of-the-art ideas while considering local conditions, providing guidance for decision-making in China's innovative development strategy.& COPY; 2023 Economic Society of Australia, Queensland. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50204 - Business and management
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy
ISSN
1538-0645
e-ISSN
1538-0645
Volume of the periodical
79
Issue of the periodical within the volume
SEP 2023
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
17
Pages from-to
462-478
UT code for WoS article
001031754800001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85163813155