for international firms engaged both in environmental and in dirty activities. Firms' innovation, measured, as the … the lack of integrated innovation adoption behind environmental productivity performance. In this work, we analyse the …

I study the implications of endogenous productivity choices ("innovation") on the effects of trade liberalization. I … find that a model with innovation generates an elasticity of trade volumes to tariff reductions that is fifty percent … larger than models without innovation, and consistent in magnitude to empirical estimates. To show this, I develop a new …

, margin of trade between Japan and China after China's entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001. The new goods account … for 15.9% of Japanese exports to China and 22% of Chinese exports to Japan after trade liberalization. For the case of …

country shows persisting surpluses, which implies a possibility that China has taken this strategy. …

This paper analyzes the role of innovation activities in the export participation of Chinese high-tech firms during the … firm-level innovation efforts, measured by R&D and product innovation dummies, play only a minor role for domestic … exporters. Foreign-invested firms dominate the high-tech exports but do not rely on indigenous innovation activities. These …

already visible, other influences are beginning to be felt – arising from China’s coordination, innovation and financing power. …China’s economic rise has transformed the global economy in a number of manufacturing industries. This paper … investigates whether China’s transformative influence extends to the new green economy. Drawing on the debate about how China is …

-think these approaches as ways to stimulate innovation in China. … underlying inventions – i.e., their ability to be transformed into something useful and thus constitute innovation. And this is … compounded by various regulatory and institutional factors in China. It is also compounded by the fact that the government has …

somewhat discourage building of quality patents and related innovation in China. … enforcement of patent rights in China that hamper patent quality. These range from inadequate review systems to requirements and …