Robots and Extensive Margins of Exports – Evidence for Manufacturing Firms from 27 EU Countries

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Observational analysis shows robots enhance export activities in manufacturing firms, suggesting improved productivity and innovation.

Firms using robots have significantly increased export activities, indicating a strong link to productivity gains.
The estimated premium for using robots in exports is statistically significant across various EU countries.
Applying econometric models and Kernel-Regularized Least Squares helped establish this relationship in detail.
The implications for policy suggest that promoting robot adoption could bolster export performance in manufacturing.

Joachim Wagner (2025) studied this question.

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