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Industrial policies are widely credited with upgrading the economic structure of the People's Republic of China (PRC …
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Human papillomavirus (HPV) is responsible for almost all of the 570,000 new cases of cervical cancer and approximately 311,000 deaths per year. HPV vaccination is an integral component of the World Health Organization's (WHO) global strategy to fight the disease. However, high vaccine prices...
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Encouraging inventors to disclose new inventions is an important economic justification for the patent system, yet the technical information contained in patent applications is often inadequate and unclear. This paper proposes a novel approach to measure disclosure in patent applications using...
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This paper investigates firm dynamics in the period before, during, and after an event consisting of a first published patent application. The analysis is based on patent data from the Norwegian Industrial Property Office merged with data from several business registers covering a period of...
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This paper examines the relationship between the logarithms of CO2 emissions and real GDP in China by applying …
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We study the relationship between finance and growth using a sample of 275 Chinese cities during 2009-2018. We exclude a large amount of bank loans to local governments through the local government financing vehicles (LGFVs). This allows us to construct a new and better financial development...
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This paper studies China’s four-fold increase in per capita GDP relative to the U.S. between 1995 and 2019. First, we … argue that China’s growth pattern is very similar to that of several other East Asia economies that initially grew very … China’s growth path and the growth paths of other East Asia economies at a similar stage of development. The growth paths of …
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is found that patents ought to be weaker, the more intense competition, the higher R&D productivity, and the more … competition and introduces an empirically substantiated measure of sector differences in the ability to catch up with the …
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early stages or to protect mature firms from competition to appropriate these externalities. However, non …
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The debate on trade and growth increasingly focuses on the composition of exports. Exports of more “sophisticated” products appear to be positively correlated with growth, and upgrading the quality of exports is high on the policy agenda of many countries. This study presents evidence...
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