Showing 1 - 10 of 770
collaborated with scientists in China during 2010-2014 with those who collaborated with scientists in other countries outside the U … coincide with a decline in the productivity of scientists with previous collaborations with scientists in China, especially …-investigation NIH funding and U.S.-China collaborations. We also provide suggestive evidence that our findings matter for the aggregate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191036
distribution of R&D and TFP growth in China during the period 2007--2012. The estimated model fits the Chinese data well. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481599
We study favoritism via hometown ties, a common source of favor exchange in China, in fellow selection of the Chinese …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455551
This paper examines the impact of rising U.S.-China geopolitical tensions on three main dimensions of science: STEM … productivity in each country. We examine each dimension from a "U.S." perspective and from a "China" perspective in an effort to … not appear to affect the average productivity of China-based researchers as measured by publications, heightened anti …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014576651
The close connection between US and China in scientific research and education in the 2000s produced a large group of … China-born researchers who work in the US ("diaspora") and a larger group of China-born researchers who gained US …-research experience and returned to do their research in China ("returnee"). Analyzing 2018 Scopus data on research papers, we estimate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322694
Government subsidies are often used to stimulate environment-friendly investment. We find that Chinese firms reduce green investment as the uncertainty of subsidies rises. This effect is identified from weather-driven fluctuations in air pollution that lead to fluctuations in subsidy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322788
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013480896
This paper explores the implications of a simple model of learning and innovation by firms. In this model R&D spillovers are partly determined by firms, rather than by the given economic environment. According to this approach the full effect of spillovers on research productivity of firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471292
Is public R&D spending complementary and thus "additional" to private R&D spending, or does it substitute for and tend to "crowd out" private R&D? Conflicting answers are given to this question. We survey the body of available economectric evidence accumulated over the past 35 years. A framework...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471411
This paper surveys the major changes in patent policy and practice that have occurred in the last two decades in the U.S., and reviews the existing analyses by economists that attempt to measure the impacts these changes have had on the processes of technological change. It also reviews the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471503