Do political connections affect firm dynamics, innovation, and creative destruction? We study Italian firms and their … firms to invest in innovation and/or political connection to advance their productivity and to overcome certain market …

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 …

-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 …

segmentation) shaped the underlying incen- tives for innovation in the PC industry during the mid to late 1980s …

from China. We find strong evidence that peer effects exist and operate in a positive and nonlinear manner; reducing the …

park site selection and document the willingness of China's provincial leaders to sacrifice economic development in order …

production and the subsequent transition to higher value exporting in China. Using data covering the universe of registered firms …

Hukou, China's household registration system, affects access to public services and signals the strength of a person …

spectacular advances of the economies of China, India, and Southeast Asia. Section 1 reviews the debate over the sources of … the new recognition among Western economists that the sustained, very rapid growth in China and Southeast Asia was … of institutional changes on invention, innovation, the process of technological change, and economic growth. Section 7 …