Products and Provinces: A Disaggregated Panel Analysis of Canada’s Manufacturing Exports

September 26, 2016

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Itai Agur. Products and Provinces: A Disaggregated Panel Analysis of Canada’s Manufacturing Exports, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2016) accessed November 21, 2024

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Summary

The waning of the commodity boom places renewed emphasis on manufacturing as an engine for Canadian growth. However, Canadian manufacturing exports have been relatively stagnant since 2000. While the exchange rate depreciation over the past two years has energized export growth, the response has not been as strong as would have been expected given the size of the depreciation. More fundamental issues appear to be impeding the growth of the Canadian manufacturing sector. This study analyzes the structural factors behind export competitiveness by using unique Canadian data on exports, which are disaggregated both by province and by product. Matching exports to similarly disaggregated data on R&D, the capital stock and other supply-side variables, we find that these variables significantly affect export growth, beyond the impact of the exchange rate. In particular, investment in R&D, capital infrastructure and vocational training improves innovation and production capacity. These results are robust to a factor-augmented approach that controls for multicollinearity.

Subject: Economic sectors, Expenditure, Export performance, Exports, International trade, Job training, Labor, Manufacturing, Public expenditure review

Keywords: Competitiveness, Export, Export deflator, Export demand regression, Export performance, Export supply regression, Exports, Global, Innovation, Job training, Manufacturing, Metal products export, Price, Price competitiveness, Product, Productivity, Public expenditure review, R&D, Statistics Canada export datum, Structural reform, Wood products industry, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

33
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Working Paper No. 2016/193
Stock No:

WPIEA2016193
ISBN:

9781475541335
ISSN:

1018-5941

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