This paper examines the impact of government assistance through R&D grants on innovation output for firms in New … the world while its effects on process innovation and any product innovation are relatively much weaker. Moreover, there …

How global are the gains from innovation? When firms operate production plants in multiple countries, technological …-2008. Our estimates indicate that innovation increases performance at firm locations beyond the innovating site: the median U … operations understate multinationals' gain from innovation, and revealing a spatial disconnect between the costs and potential …

indicate that increases in the share of a firm's innovation performed by inventors of a particular ethnicity are associated …

product and process innovation (simultaneously adopting new machines and organizational practices) and adopt foreign … technologies, leading to higher productivity. We propose a model of endogenous selection and innovation in heterogeneous firms that … jointly explains the observed selection process and the innovation decisions. Further, we show in the data that innovation on …

nearly 600 billion dollars, while China's official net creditor position to the rest of the world is overstated by about 50 …

Each of the world's largest retailers---Walmart, Carrefour, Tesco, and Metro---entered China after 1995. Their … subsequent expansion in China may have influenced Chinese exports through two channels. First, they may have enhanced bilateral …

Using a unique firm-level dataset from China's "Silicon Valley," we investigate how multinational enterprises (MNEs …

sectoral pattern of multinational activity. Using detailed customs data from China, we show that foreign affiliates and joint …