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The purpose of economic reform is to reduce distortions and enhance efficiency. However, when reforms are partial and incremental, individuals and local governments are often able to capture the rent inherent in the gradual transition process. Young (2000) warned that such rent-seeking behavior...
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already visible, other influences are beginning to be felt – arising from China’s coordination, innovation and financing power. …
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This paper analyzes the role of innovation activities in the export participation of Chinese high-tech firms during the … firm-level innovation efforts, measured by R&D and product innovation dummies, play only a minor role for domestic … exporters. Foreign-invested firms dominate the high-tech exports but do not rely on indigenous innovation activities. These …
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innovation performance (IP). In addition, existing studies examine the moderating effect of S&T employees management (STEM) on … the relationship between S&T employees input (STEI) and innovation performance (IP). We obtained 324 valid samples through …&T employees management (STEM) exerted a positively significant effect on innovation performance. However, the moderating effect of …
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. These policies triggered concerns over the impact of debt financing on firms' technological innovation activities. Based on … the effect of debt financing on two types of technological innovation, namely radical and incremental innovation …. Specifically, both the direct effect of debt financing on technological innovation and its moderating effect on the relationship …
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Abstract Both Mexico and China have started export orientation in some industries, through assembly operations, based on imported inputs a couple of decades ago. The literature on industrialization, has discussed the questions of import substitutions and outward-orientation mainly as alternative...
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This paper analyzes the impact of Research and Development (R&D) on the productivity of China's high technology industry. In order to capture important differences in the effect of R&D on output that arise from geographic and socioeconomic differences across three major regions in China, we use...
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This paper estimates the economic returns to education in China from 1989 to 2009, using the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) dataset. We find that education returns for one additional year generally increase from 2.6% in 1989 to 7.9% in 2009. Education returns, however, may reflect...
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In poco più di venti anni dall’inizio dei processi di riforma del sistema distributivo, la struttura della distribuzione commerciale in Cina è cambiata radicalmente. Questo articolo descrive le principali caratteristiche del sistema della distribuzione al dettaglio e all'ingrosso di beni in...
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manufacturing sector of China. The results show that funding for production and innovation can revive zombie enterprises in … expanding industries, while funding for interest cannot. Furthermore, funding for production and innovation can share costs …, increase investment in selling or innovation, and promote the scaling down of businesses through external governance effects …
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