Export and productivity in Chinese manufacturing: A semiparametric smooth coefficient approach
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165176525004811?getft_integrator=clarivate&pes=vor&utm_source=clarivate" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165176525004811?getft_integrator=clarivate&pes=vor&utm_source=clarivate</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2025.112644" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.econlet.2025.112644</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Export and productivity in Chinese manufacturing: A semiparametric smooth coefficient approach
Original language description
This paper revisits the export-productivity puzzle in Chinese manufacturing using a semiparametric smooth coefficient (SPSC) model and firm-level panel data. Our main contribution lies in addressing several critical specification issues to ensure the validity and robustness of the results. We show that, unlike the positive export premium documented in other settings, Chinese exporters exhibit lower productivity than non-exporters. By addressing input endogeneity with proxy-variable methods and explicitly accounting for zero-export firms, our estimates are both robust and economically well-grounded. A distinctive feature of the SPSC framework is its ability to isolate input-specific channels - particularly capital and labor - through which exports influence productivity.
Czech name
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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
50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
ECONOMICS LETTERS
ISSN
0165-1765
e-ISSN
0165-1765
Volume of the periodical
256
Issue of the periodical within the volume
neuvedeno
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
7
Pages from-to
1-7
UT code for WoS article
001590650400003
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105017541891