Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name:  Ricardo D. Brito
Author-Name-First: Ricardo D.
Author-Name-Last: Brito
Author-Name:  Jorge Chami
Author-Name-First: Jorge
Author-Name-Last: Chami
Author-Name: Eduardo C. Souza
Author-Name-First: Eduardo C.
Author-Name-Last: Souza
Title: The quality-cost choice of R&D in the nations’ exports
Abstract:  Is R&D primarily directed at quality improvement or cost reduction? We use UN-Comtrade data on manufactured goods exports by 19 OECD countries in order to assess this conjecture from the endogenous growth literature. We find that, in export market competition, the demand for high-tech goods – i.e., R&D intensive goods – is less sensitive to price than the demand for low-tech goods. We also estimate exporters’ quality levels in each market and find that high-tech goods have more quality, as well as their demands is the most sensitive to quality. 
Length:  23 pages
Creation-Date:  2012
Order-URL: https://repositorio.insper.edu.br/handle/11224/5925
File-URL: https://repositorio.insper.edu.br/handle/11224/5925
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File-Function: Full text
Number: 168
Handle: RePEc:aap:wpaper:168