Alfaro, Laura; Bao, Ge; Chen, Maggie Xiaoyang; Hong, Junjie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
exploring a historical precedent: China's trademark law of 1923---an unanticipated and disapproved response to end foreign … privileges in China. By exploiting a unique, newly digitized firm-employee-level dataset from Shanghai in 1872-1941, we show that …