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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...
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innovation by firms, and ask if it impacted firms more than 30 years later. We examine the innovation of firms with CEOs who …
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-specific quotas following China's entry into the World Trade Organization. Chinese import competition had two effects: first, it led … effect on innovation. We develop a simple "trapped factor" model of innovation that is consistent with these empirical …
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We explore the determinants of research specialization across countries and its consequences for relative wages. Using a dynamic Ricardian model we examine the effects of faster international technology diffusion and lower trade barriers on the incentive to innovate. In the absence of any...
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This chapter reviews the empirical economics literature on the impact of trade liberalization on firms' innovation … levels. In emerging countries, trade liberalization appears to spur productivity and innovation. In developed countries …, export opportunities and access to imported intermediates tend to encourage innovation, but the evidence on import …
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's innovation surveys, and firms' patent, industrial design, and trademark filings with the Chilean IP office. We use these data to …-to-the-world product innovation, which suggests that branding may be an important mechanism to appropriate returns to innovation in a …
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Canadian firms adjusts innovation activities, business strategies, and exit in response to large increases in Chinese imports … between 1999 and 2005. On average, process innovation declines more strongly than product innovation. In addition, initially …
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Large population / rapidly growing economies such as China and India have argued that in the upcoming UNFCCC …
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) can be affected by the movements in the center economies - the U.S., Japan, the Eurozone, and China. We apply a two …
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moderate the perceived need for insurance, and China would have to loom large in both solutions …
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