University of Ulster NISRA BDR Programme

阿尔斯特大学 NISRA BDR 项目

• 批准号: ES/X012638/1
• 负责人: Karen Bonner
• 金额: $ 6.28万
• 依托单位: University of Ulster
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FX012638%2F1
• 关键词: University; Ulster; NISRA; BDR; Programme

The proposed research aims to improve our understanding of the relationships between firms' engagement in markets external to Northern Ireland (NI) and their performance. The overall aim of the project would be to develop a new evidence base which adds to current knowledge about the role of exporting and importing, and those firms engaged in such activities, within the NI economy.Our central research questions are:RQ1: What relationship is there between firm/sector characteristics and internationalisation (both exporting and importing) for NI firms? RQ2. What can we say about the contributions of extensive (numbers of market sold to or imported from) and intensive (increasing sales/purchases) margins to overall export growth for the NI economy?The existing literature in this research field shows how firms engaged in international trade (in the main exporting) tend to be more capital intensive, more innovative, pay higher wages and are more productive than their non-exporting peers. Evidence for this has been shown for NI firms engaged in cross-border trade and for NI exports. Our additional contribution, and of particular interest to those engaged in the 10X Economy policy development, would be the effect of sectoral characteristics (including export intensity, productivity, etc) on the propensity and intensity of exporting by firms in those sectors. We also aim to extend the analysis to examine the effect of importing behaviour, which has received less focus in previous research.Through this BDR initiative we propose to offer both a very detailed descriptive analysis of export (and import) performance - by market, by sector and by geography - over the 2014-2020 period as well as relating this to economic performance in those external markets and industrial sectors. We will follow this by looking at export strategies at the firm level in order to explain the larger trade patterns that we are seeing in the time series. This will offer some evidence to test out the export promotion and 'pathway to exporting' approaches that have been followed in policy spheres. The second stage of the analysis, which seeks to analyse the relationship between business characteristics and exporting, and separately identify whether there is an export premia (or import premia) on business performance, will be undertaken via econometric analysis, using standard techniques from the literature.The project's deliverables will include a main report containing both a descriptive analysis of exporters and non-exporters and likewise, importers and non-importers (by size, detailed sector, priority sector and geography), along with econometric analysis which seeks to analyse the statistical relationship between business and performance characteristics and the various internationalisation status variables i.e. exporting, importing, export intensity, broad export market orientation. This main report will help support the Department for the Economy (DfE) in their research priorities, specifically in terms of the 10X Economy, by providing an understanding of NI's exporter base. It will enable an up-to-date profile of exporting firms to be established in terms of which characteristics are most associated with exporting and whether this changes depending on the broad market destination, and in terms of the intensity of exporting. It will also enable an assessment of the impact of exporting on business performance, thereby helping to support policy development in this area. Finally, by including analysis of importers, it will provide a more complete understanding of the internationalisation of NI's business population.

拟议的研究旨在提高我们对企业参与北爱尔兰（NI）外部市场与其绩效之间关系的理解。该项目的总体目标是开发一个新的证据基础，增加有关北爱尔兰经济中出口和进口的作用以及从事此类活动的公司的现有知识。我们的中心研究问题是：RQ1：什么关系NI 公司/行业特征与国际化（出口和进口）之间是否存在关系？ RQ2。关于粗放利润（销售或进口的市场数量）和集约利润（增加销售/采购）对北爱尔兰经济整体出口增长的贡献，我们能说些什么？该研究领域的现有文献表明，企业如何参与国际贸易与非出口贸易相比，贸易（主要出口贸易）往往更加资本密集、更具创新性、支付更高的工资并且生产率更高。从事跨境贸易和NI出口的NI公司已经证明了这一点。我们的额外贡献是部门特征（包括出口强度、生产率等）对这些部门企业出口倾向和强度的影响，这对那些参与 10 倍经济政策制定的人来说尤其重要。我们还旨在扩展分析范围，以检验进口行为的影响，这在之前的研究中较少受到关注。通过这项 BDR 计划，我们建议对出口（和进口）绩效提供非常详细的描述性分析——按市场、按市场划分。按部门和地域划分 - 2014-2020 年期间，并将其与这些外部市场和工业部门的经济表现联系起来。接下来，我们将研究公司层面的出口策略，以解释我们在时间序列中看到的更大的贸易模式。这将为检验政策领域所遵循的出口促进和“出口途径”方法提供一些证据。分析的第二阶段旨在分析业务特征与出口之间的关系，并分别确定业务绩效是否存在出口溢价（或进口溢价），将使用文献中的标准技术通过计量经济分析进行该项目的可交付成果将包括一份主要报告，其中包含对出口商和非出口商以及进口商和非进口商（按规模、详细部门、优先部门和地理位置）的描述性分析，以及计量经济分析，其中旨在分析业务和绩效特征以及各种国际化状态变量（即出口、进口、出口强度、广泛的出口市场导向）之间的统计关系。该主要报告将通过提供对 NI 出口商基础的了解，帮助支持经济部 (DfE) 的研究重点，特别是 10X 经济方面的研究。它将能够根据哪些特征与出口最相关、这种特征是否根据广泛的市场目的地以及出口强度而变化，建立出口公司的最新概况。它还将能够评估出口对企业绩效的影响，从而有助于支持该领域的政策制定。最后，通过对进口商的分析，可以更全面地了解NI业务群体的国际化情况。