Study On The Impact Of Industrial Robot Applications On The Markup Rate Of Exporters

Chinese export enterprises occupy an important position in the global trade.Since 2001 when they joined the WTO,the export value of goods trade has continued to rise and foreign trade has made great development,but Chinese export enterprises still face many problems and challenges.On the one hand,the competition in the international market has intensified,the price of export commodities is on the verge of cost price,and export enterprises are generally facing the "low markup rate trap".On the other hand,the degree of domestic aging is deepening,the demographic dividend is gradually disappearing,and the labor cost is rising.Therefore,how to use industrial robots to reduce production costs,improve the markup rate and promote the high-quality development of China’s export trade has become an important issue to be solved.Industrial robots have the function of replacing labor,which is bound to help export enterprises use industrial robots to replace more expensive labor and thus reduce production costs.In view of this,this thesis investigates the impact of industrial robots on export enterprises’ markup rate,mainly using the combined data of China Industrial Enterprise Database,China Customs Database and World Industrial Robot Database from 2006 to 2013 to measure the penetration rate of industrial robots,the markup rate of export enterprises and the dispersion of export enterprises’ markup rate,and constructs a regression model for empirical testing to draw corresponding Conclusion.(1)The application of industrial robots has a significant positive impact on the exporters’ markup rate,and the core findings still hold after adjusting for the sample selection bias,dealing with the endogeneity problem and stability test.(2)The mechanism test shows that the application of industrial robots can improve the exporters’ markup rate by improving the quality of export products and total factor productivity,there are "price effect" and "marginal cost effect".(3)The positive impact of industrial robots on exporters’ markup rate is heterogeneous depending on the region,ownership,industry Factor Intensity and sample differences before and after the international financial crisis.Specifically,industrial robot application has a more significant positive impact on the markup rate of exporters in the central and western regions,non-state enterprises,and capital-intensive enterprises with the post-international financial crisis.(4)The extended analysis shows that industrial robots can significantly reduce the dispersion of exporters’ markup rate distribution and optimize resource allocation.This thsis provides a reference for exporting enterprises to improve the additive rate and optimize resource allocation,and proposes two policy recommendations based on the research results:(1)the government should improve the application level of industrial robots and formulate differentiated policies by combining the heterogeneous characteristics of exporting enterprises,specifically,the government should formulate differentiated policies to encourage the application of industrial robots according to different ownership systems and regions.(2)The government should improve the quality of industrial robots and optimize the efficiency of resource allocation,specifically,the government should invest more funds in the production of industrial robots,improve the quality of industrial robots and optimize the efficiency of resource allocation.