Using patent data from the United States, Japan, and Germany, this paper examines both the innovation and diffusion of … environmental regulations. Moreover, any technology transfer that occurs appears to be indirect. Domestic innovation occurs even for …

Urban China's high levels of ambient air pollution both lowers quality of life and raises mortality risk. China … inequality in human capital accumulation and in quality of life inequality in urban China …

China, we measure individuals’ FinTech adoption by the speed and intensity with which they adopt the new technology. Our …

the allocation and impacts of innovation subsidies, using the data from the China Employer Employee Survey (CEES). We find … that the innovation subsidies are preferentially allocated to state owned firms and politically connected firms. Of these … also find that the firms that receive innovation subsidies file and receive more patents, are more likely to introduce new …

a discussion of sources of environmental innovation. Given that most innovation is concentrated in a few rich countries …

It follows from Hicks' induced innovation hypothesis that rising energy prices in the last two decades should have … induced energy-saving innovation. We formulate the hypothesis concretely using a product-characteristics model of energy … innovation. Through estimation of characteristics transformation surfaces, we find that technological change reduced the total …