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| Manufacturing Intelligence and Firms' Export Product Quality: Micro Evidence from China |
| LIU Wenge, GENG Jingzhu, DU Mingwei |
| School of International Economics and International Relations, Liaoning University |
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Abstract: With the advent of the fourth industrial revolution, the application of industrial robots has become an important indicator of the intelligentization of the manufacturing industry, and has had an increasingly profound impact on export trade. Based on China's industry-level robot application data, the enterpriselevel robot import data, Chinese industrial enterprise data and customs product data from 2000 to 2014, this paper examines the impact of industrial robots on the quality of the exported products. The empirical results from the enterprise level and the product level are consistent. The results show that the application of industrial robots can significantly promote the quality upgrading of China's export products. It still holds after considering causal identification of instrumental variables, sample selection bias and multi-robustness test. Quasi-natural experiments based on imported industrial robots are also robust, and the promotion effect increases with time. Mechanism analysis shows that industrial robots mainly improve the quality of export products through three channels: total factor productivity boost, enterprise innovation capability enhancement, and labor factor upgrading.
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Received: 27 September 2022
Published: 15 January 2023
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2023, Vol. 43 
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