Digital production technologies and exports
基于欧洲四国制造业调查数据，用结构方程模型分析数字生产技术通过生产率和产品相关服务两个渠道影响出口，发现机器人通过生产率渠道、增材制造和传感器通过服务渠道促进出口，物流技术则双渠道均有效。
This paper studies the relationship between digital production technologies and exports. Using data from the European Manufacturing Survey 2018 for Austrian, Croatian, German and Swiss manufacturing firms, we apply structural equation modelling to examine two possible transmission channels between digital production technologies and exports: first through productivity; second, through product-related services. The results reveal some heterogeneity in the ways different technologies relate to exports: while robots show a positive link with exports through the productivity channel, additive manufacturing and connected sensors are found to be positively related only to services which in turn influence exports. The results for logistics technologies, in contrast, suggest a positive relation with export activity through both channels.