O INSPER E ESTE REPOSITÓRIO NÃO DETÊM OS DIREITOS DE USO E REPRODUÇÃO DOS CONTEÚDOS AQUI REGISTRADOS. É RESPONSABILIDADE DO USUÁRIO VERIFICAR OS USOS PERMITIDOS NA FONTE ORIGINAL, RESPEITANDO-SE OS DIREITOS DE AUTOR OU EDITORBrito, Ricardo Dias de OliveiraChami, JorgeEDUARDO CORREIA DE SOUZA2023-07-242023-07-242012https://repositorio.insper.edu.br/handle/11224/5925Is R&D primarily directed at quality improvement or cost reduction? We use UN-Comtrade data on manufactured goods exports by 19 OECD countries in order to assess this conjecture from the endogenous growth literature. We find that, in export market competition, the demand for high-tech goods – i.e., R&D intensive goods – is less sensitive to price than the demand for low-tech goods. We also estimate exporters’ quality levels in each market and find that high-tech goods have more quality, as well as their demands is the most sensitive to quality.22 p.DigitalInglêsworking paperinternational tradeendogenous growthquality of exportsR&D intensityBEWP 168/2012