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Type Journal Article
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Demand forces of technical change evidence from the Chinese manufacturing industry
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Authors
  • Andreas Beerli
  • Franziska J Weiss
  • Fabrizio Zilibotti
  • Josef Zweimüller
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Journal Title China Economic Review
Publisher Elsevier
Geographical Reach international
ISSN 1043-951X
Volume 60
Page Range 101157
Date 2020
Abstract Text This paper investigates the effect of domestic market size on innovation activities across different durable good industries in the Chinese manufacturing sector. We address the endogeneity of market size by an IV strategy, based on a measure of potential market size, which is driven only by changes in the Chinese income distribution. This measure is exogenous to changes in prices and qualities of durable goods and is a valid instrument for expected future market size. Our results indicate that an increase in market size by one percent leads to an increase in firm-specific total factor productivity by 0.46% and an increase in labor productivity by 0.50%. These findings are robust to controlling for export behavior of firms and supply side drivers of R&D.
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Digital Object Identifier 10.1016/j.chieco.2018.03.003
Other Identification Number merlin-id:17665
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Keywords Economics and econometrics, finance, China, demand-induced innovation, directed technical change, durable goods,economic growth, Engel curves, market size, middle class, non-homothetic preferences