investigates the link between outsourcing and innovation empirically using firm-level data for over 20 emerging market economies …

environmental regulations can spur more rapid innovation. I present a general framework for the analysis of these questions. I …

sectors (inter-sectoral spillovers), or at the international level. We find that innovation is strongly driven by knowledge … spillovers, especially those occurring at the national level. Wind and solar technologies exhibit distinct innovation … only influential in the case of wind technology. We also find evidence that public R&D stimulates innovation, particularly …

more important for small-firm innovation than for their larger counterparts. …

China is different from both other low-wage and OECD countries. Industry-level import competition and firm-level outsourcing … to China reduce firm employment growth and induce skill upgrading. In contrast, industry-level imports have no effect on … Belgian firm survival, while firm-level outsourcing of finished goods to China even increased firm's probability of survival …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …