Do firms learn from international trade?

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: MacGarvie, M
• 署名单位: Boston University; National Bureau of Economic Research
• 刊物名称: REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0034-6535
• DOI: 10.1162/rest.2006.88.1.46
• 发表日期: 2006-02
• 页码: 46-60
• 关键词: research-and-development; spillovers; KNOWLEDGE; patents

摘要

Using patent citations as a proxy for the influence of foreign technology on French firms' patents, this paper finds that the inventions of importers are significantly more likely to be influenced by foreign technology than are the inventions of firms that do not import. Furthermore, importers' citations increase relative to similar firms after they start importing. Exporting, in contrast, is not significantly associated with citations to foreign patents. These results persist after controlling for foreign ownership linkages and joint ventures and alliances, and after correcting for selection bias using propensity-score matching.