We examine the impact of lost intellectual property protection on innovation, competition, acquisitions, lawsuits and … employment agreements. We consider firms whose ability to protect intellectual property (IP) using patents is weakened following …

The Cultural Revolution deprived Chinese students of the opportunity to receive higher education for 10 years when … colleges and universities were closed from 1966-1976. We examine the human capital cost of this loss of education on subsequent … innovation by firms, and ask if it impacted firms more than 30 years later. We examine the innovation of firms with CEOs who …