%0 Conference Paper %F Oral %T Does the R&D Public Procurement Matter for High-Tech Exports? Evidence from the USA %+ Cairo University %+ Faculty of Economics and Political Science (FEPS) %+ Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1) %A Dardir, Dina %< avec comité de lecture %B 18th Annual INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION CONFERENCE %C Philadelphia, United States %8 2020-05-01 %D 2020 %K public spending %K Government Purchases %K R&D %K High-tech industries %K The USA %Z Humanities and Social SciencesConference papers %X Recently, demand-side innovation policies have succeeded in stimulating technology upgrading in many countries around the world. Especially, public procurement has become a major and important industrial policy for achieving technological development and competitiveness. This paper examines empirically the impact of R&D public procurement (innovative public procurement) on high-tech exports of 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia over the period 2000-2008. The econometric analysis relies on panel fixed-effects estimations and an instrumental variable approach to investigate the causal effect of the R&D public procurement on high-tech exports. Based on a unique panel dataset of federal procurement in the USA, the empirical results show that there is a positive and statistically significant effect of R&D federal procurement on high-tech exports. The results of this paper confirm the importance and effectiveness of R&D public procurement as a policy to enhance technological competitiveness. The results are robust using various robustness checks. Moreover, this paper also shows three potential mechanisms through which R&D public procurement may affect high-tech exports. %G English %2 https://paris1.hal.science/hal-04047813/document %2 https://paris1.hal.science/hal-04047813/file/HAL.pdf %L hal-04047813 %U https://paris1.hal.science/hal-04047813 %~ SHS %~ UNIV-PARIS1 %~ TEST3-HALCNRS