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This Paper analyses industrial policy in a high wage open economy hosting an agglomeration consisting of vertically linked upstream and downstream firms. We show that optimal policy towards upstream industries typically differ from the optimal policy towards downstream industries....
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The outcome of technological competition between firms (or countries) depends on the resolution of two forces: the profit incentive and the competitive threat. This is illustrated using a simple duopoly model. This model is then used to analyze two policy issues: subsidizing R & D and...
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We estimate the effect on economic development of China's industrial policy, in particular, the establishment of …
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In 2009, the United States imposed additional tariffs for a three-year period on imports of automotive tires from China … under a special-safeguard provision included in China’s Protocol of Accession to the WTO. China challenged the measure in … in which an accession protocol was used successfully as a defense; and the first that China lost as a complaining party …
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In this Paper, we provide a case study of the impact of globalization on income inequality using data across Chinese … demonstrate a greater decline in urban-rural income inequality. Thus, globalization has helped to reduce, rather than increase …, the urban-rural income inequality. This pattern in the data suggests that inferences based solely on China's national …
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This paper analyses the geography of innovation in China and India. Using a tailor-made panel database for regions in … between the provinces and states within both countries are quite different. In China, the concentration of innovation is …. Innovative areas in China, rather than generate knowledge spillovers, seem to produce strong backwash effects. In India, by …
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We investigate whether inward FDI, either at the firm or industry level, has any impact on product innovation by … that export, invest in human capital or R&D, or have prior innovation experience. We also find that SOEs with internal R …
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This paper addresses a number of questions which are essential to a proper understanding of the causes and effects of the inflationary process and to an assessment of the contribution of monetary policy to the achievement of long-term price stability. These questions are: (1) what are the...
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, productivity growth, and product innovation to a larger extent when it targets more competitive sectors and when it is not …, starting with China. Rather, the issue should be on how to design and govern sectoral policies in order to make them more …
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, wheat) at low prices and sold them on world markets at much higher prices, a policy equivalent to an export tax. Ali also …
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