IFN researchers on firm R&D investment
26 January 2021
Matilda Orth, IFN, and Florin Maican, affiliated to the IFN, have written a column on the dynamic impact of exporting on firm R&D investment in Vox EU. Together with their co-authors Mark Roberts, Pennsylvania State University, and Van Anh Vuong, Maastricht University, they use a structural framework to estimate the returns to innovation investments and analyze the impact of trade of those returns.
One of their conclusions is that the long payoff to R&D investment is higher for firms that are active and operate more intensively in export markets.