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Government subsidies are often used to stimulate environment-friendly investment. We find that Chinese firms reduce green investment as the uncertainty of subsidies rises. This effect is identified from weather-driven fluctuations in air pollution that lead to fluctuations in subsidy...
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Government subsidies are often used to stimulate environment-friendly investment. We find that Chinese firms reduce green investment as the uncertainty of subsidies rises. This effect is identified from weather-driven fluctuations in air pollution that lead to fluctuations in subsidy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014350057
The profitability gap between state-owned enterprises and the non-state industrial sector in China is significant. Using a highly-disaggregated database of China’s industry in 2003, we estimate an average return to capital in state-owned enterprises about 9% that of foreign-invested firms, and...
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Asia, have engaged in improving their innovation capability in the economic transition. First, I measured and compared … innovation capability of both countries by using not only various input and output indicators of innovation systems but also the … how both countries developed their innovation capabilities by focusing on their transformation of the national innovation …
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constraints or the promotion of follow-on innovation. …
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This paper explores the "black box" of innovation in the electronics production network in East Asia through a mapping … ownership and innovation in increasing the probability of exporting in electronics. Higher levels of skills, managers' education … innovation than the research and development (R&D) to sales ratio. Accordingly, technological effort in electronics in these …
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innovation was important, there has been little research on opening up the black box of technology at firm-level in the PRC. This … paper undertakes econometric analysis of innovation, learning, and exporting in automobiles and electronics firms in the PRC … using a large-scale dataset to identify the most appropriate innovation proxy. Drawing on recent literature on innovation …
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Understanding the factors that may produce a sustained rate of innovation is important for promoting economic … development and growth. In this paper, we examine the role of human capital in firms' innovation by using a large sample of … small and medium sized cities. Patent applications are used as the measure of innovation. Human capital indicators used …
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This study investigates the impacts of Chinese high-tech enterprise certification policy on enterprise innovation by … certification can promote Chinese enterprise innovation, especially the innovation captured by invention patents. The results of a … certification can influence enterprise innovation through tangible and intangible channels. The heterogeneity analysis shows that …
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The purpose of this paper is to ascertain how wages are being determined in China during the reform period. The paper focuses on the development of the regulatory framework since 1978 and proceeds by examining official regulations regarding labor market institutions and wage setting, and by...
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