We investigate whether inward FDI, either at the firm or industry level, has any impact on product innovation by … Chinese State owned enterprises (SOEs). We use a comprehensive firm level panel data set of Chinese SOEs covering the period … that export, invest in human capital or R&D, or have prior innovation experience. We also find that SOEs with internal R …

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 …

China’s economic reforms have resulted in spectacular growth and poverty reduction. However, China’s institutions look … ill-suited to achieve such a result, and they indeed suffer from serious shortcomings. To solve "China puzzle" this paper … analyses China’s institution - a regionally decentralized authoritarian system. The central government has control over …

is not too dependent on a specific leader being in office. The paper looks empirically at spells of autocracy to … selectorate in specific instances of successful autocracy. We also show that, consistent with the theory, leadership turnover in …

individual level, examining the relationship between religiosity and a broad set of pro- or anti-innovation attitudes in all five … waves of the World Values Survey (1980 to 2005). We thus relate eleven indicators of individual openness to innovation … innovation. …

" inventors, those with the most and most valuable patents. We use panel data on inventors from the United States and European … Patent Offices to track inventors' locations over time and combine it with international effective top tax rate data. We …