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Table 3 Determinants of product innovation

From: The impact of competition with China in the US market on innovation in Mexican manufacturing firms

Independent variables

Model 1

Model 2

Model 3

% of US imports from China

0.0548 (− 3.83)**

0.035 (− 4.38)**

0.0402 (− 3.75)**

% of US imports from China squared

18.4782 (2.06)*

78.4058 (3.02)**

255.6942 (3.52)**

Internal competition measure

10.4025 (3.06)**

15.0211 (3.15)**

Internal competition measure squared

0.0207 (− 4.04)**

0.0203 (− 3.64)**

Firm with 100% foreign capital

0.6867 (− 1.90)^

Firm with mixed capital

0.7678 (− 1.07)

Exporting firm

1.0738 (0.54)

Outsourcing firm

0.7552 (− 0.94)

Firm within a corporation

1.5098 (3.22)**

Size

1.0000 (2.52)**

Firm with R&D area

21.1966 (23.47)**

Industry fixed effects

No

No

No

Pseudo R-squared

0.0108

0.0184

0.1896

Prob > χ2

0

0

0

Number of observations

6378

6378

6378

  1. Each estimation is from a separate logistic regression
  2. A model including industry fixed effects and all control variables included in Model 3 can be found in Table 6
  3. t values are included in parenthesis
  4. * Significant at a 5% level
  5. ** Significant at a 1% level
  6. ^Significant at a 10% level