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Incremental Reform and Distortions in China’s Product and Factor Markets
Zhang, Xiaobo; Tan, Kong-Yam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
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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China's Impact on the Global Wind Power Industry
Lema, Rasmus; Berger, Axel; Schmitz, Hubert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
already visible, other influences are beginning to be felt – arising from China’s coordination, innovation and financing power. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257939
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Drivers for international innovation activities in developed and emerging countries
Schmiele, Anja - 2009
This paper aims to shed light on firm specific drivers that lead firms to internationalise their innovation activities …’s competitive environment and the influence of innovation obstacles in the home country. In particular, the role of the potential … used to observe their impact on the decision to locate innovation activities in various countries and regions (China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003888033
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The effect of institutional ownership on firm innovation : evidence from Chinese listed firms
Rong, Zhao; Wu, Xiaokai; Boeing, Philipp - 2017
Monitoring by institutional investors can act as an important mechanism to promote firm innovation. By investigating … innovation. Consistent with the monitoring view, we further find that (1) the effect of institutional investors on firm patenting … robust when innovation quality is examined. …
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Does innovation matter for Chinese hightech exports? a firm-level analysis
Fu, Dahai; Wu, Yanrui; Tang, Yihong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
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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From Export Promotion To Import Substitution; Comparative Experience of China and Mexico
Shafaeddin, Mehdi; Pizarro, Juan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
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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Productivity in China's high technology industry: Regional heterogeneity and R&D
Zhang, Rui; Sun, Kai; Delgado, Michael; Kumbhakar, Subal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
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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A selection analysis on education returns in China
Kang, Lili; Peng, Fei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
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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Il sistema distributivo cinese fra tradizione e modernizzazione
Musso, Fabio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
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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Exporting wage premium in the exporting sector: evidence from manufacturing firms in China
Fu, Dahai; Wu, Yanrui - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper investigates whether exporting firms pay average higher wages than non-exporting firms by analyzing a large sample of Chinese manufacturing firms in 2004. Through rigorous exercises involving robust regressions, quantile regressions and nonparametric matching estimators, we find that...
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