异质性产品质量与出口加成率

Heterogeneous Product Quality and Export Markups

相对于已有研究分析生产率、目的市场选择和市场竞争等因素对出口加成率影响的视角,本文采用2000—2007年企业层面数据测算了28个细分制造业出口产品质量指数及按照会计方法处理的出口加成率,对中国制造业行业产品质量与出口价格加成率的关系进行实证分析。研究结果表明:出口加成率总体并没有随产品质量而提升,但影响因产品质量的异质性而存在差异,劳动密集型制造业出口产品质量显著提高了加成率,而技术和资本密集型产业仍处于阶段性"加成率陷阱"。

Different from current research on the effect of productivity, destination market selection and competition to export markups, this paper makes an empirical analysis of the relationship between product quality and export markups in Chinese manufacturing industry by measuring the product quality index with firm- level data from 2000 to 2007. It deals with the export markups with the accounting methods. The empirical results show that export markups is not improved with product quality, and manufacturing industries in China exist＂ the mystery of the low export price＂, but there is differences because of heterogeneous product quality. The quality of export product in labor-intensive manufacturing industry can improve the markups remarkably, while there is a ＂markups trap＂ in technology and capital intensive industries.