Industrial Robot Application and Manufacturing Export Stability:Empirical Evidence from Multinational Data
In the face of an increasingly uncertain and risky external environment,maintaining export stability is crucial for the security of industrial and supply chains.This paper utilizes relevant data from 56 countries across 16 manufacturing industries from 2005 to 2018 to empirically in-vestigate the impact of industrial robot applications on the stability of domestic value-added exports within the manufacturing sector.The study finds that the application of industrial robots can promote the stability of domestic value-added exports in manufacturing.Mechanism analysis indicates that the main channels through which industrial robots promote export stability include:improvements in productivity,increased R&D investment intensity,enhancement of technological innovation capabilities,and expansion of the domestic market demand scale.The impact of industrial robot application on export stability is particularly pronounced in the case of intermediate goods,labor-intensive and tech-nology-intensive manufacturing,high digital technology investment manufacturing,and middle-income countries.Furthermore,additional a-nalysis shows that the impact of the industry competition effect due to industrial robot application on export stability levels is contingent upon the relative strength of the"escape competition effect"versus the"competition exclusion effect".This research provides insights for fostering deeper integration of industrial robots with the manufacturing sector and for enhancing the stability of manufacturing exports.
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