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exploring a historical precedent: China's trademark law of 1923---an unanticipated and disapproved response to end foreign … privileges in China. By exploiting a unique, newly digitized firm-employee-level dataset from Shanghai in 1872-1941, we show that …
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apply this framework to understanding the implications of the U.S.-China trade war. Our results show that the trade …, but also by causing declines in the returns of firms trading with China. We find that markets expect the trade war to …
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While China has made great strides in transforming its centrally-planned economy to a market-oriented economy, there … competition from non-local firms. This study documents the presence of local protectionism and quantifies its impacts on market … competition and social welfare in the context of China's automobile market. This market exhibits a salient feature that vehicle …
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emphasizes the joint determination of countries' portfolio choices and trading currency. We find that unilateral protectionism on …-for-tat responses between just the US and China would likely leave the dollar's role essentially unchanged. If both countries coordinate …
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This paper documents the major transformation of higher education that has been underway in China since 1999 and … evaluates its potential global impacts. Reflecting China's commitment to continued high growth through quality upgrading and the … China has been grown at approximately 30% per year since 1999, and the number of graduates at all levels of higher education …
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in China in the years around the privatizations of state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Innovation increases after SOE …
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strategy leverages China's WTO TRIPs accession, which led to stronger intellectual property rights in 2002. We find a …
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In this paper I provide a theory for brand-protection strategies to reduce counterfeiting under weak intellectual property rights. My theoretical framework has general implications for endogenous sunk cost investments as a means of deterring counterfeiters. My model incorporates two layers of...
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pharmaceutical trade data from 1996 to 2005, we examine the role of China and India as suppliers of medicines to other middle- and … medicines from high- income countries. We find that imports of antibiotics and unspecified medicaments from India and China … China are not only important sources of inexpensive medicines but also have an indirect effect by lowering prices through …
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are important explorations made by China in recent years to promote innovations and the commercialization of patents in …
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