Author(s)

Yaqi Ma ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Economics, Shanghai University, Shanghai, 200444, China

Corresponding Author

Yaqi Ma

ABSTRACT

This paper uses the data matched between China's 2000-2006 industrial enterprise database and the customs product side of the transaction database to study the impact of RMB exchange rate fluctuations on the quality of enterprise export products. This paper finds that: the RMB exchange rate and enterprise product quality are positively correlated with each other, and the effect is significant, the appreciation of RMB helps to upgrade the quality of export products; at the same time, it analyses that in the face of different enterprise productivity, the impact of exchange rate fluctuations on product quality is heterogeneous, the greater the enterprise productivity, the greater the motivation of enterprises to improve product quality in the case of RMB appreciation; when analysing the impact mechanism, it verifies that the impact of exchange rate fluctuations on product quality is through the export of high quality, low quality and high quality products by enterprises. In the analysis of the influence mechanism, it is verified that the influence of exchange rate fluctuation on product quality is through the enterprises' choice of high-quality and low-quality products when exporting.

KEYWORDS

Exchange Rate, Export Product Quality, Influencing Factors, Product Entry and Exit

CITE THIS PAPER

Yaqi Ma, Impact of Exchange Rate Fluctuations on the Quality of Products Exported by Enterprises. Accounting and Corporate Management (2024) Vol. 6: 63-71. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/acccm.2024.060109.

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