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Measuring the degree of corporate innovation
Reeb, David M. - 2017
Corporate innovation propels both company performance and economic growth. Yet, measuring corporate innovation proves to be challenging, leading researchers to rely on a variety of different signals, such as reported R&D expenditures, patent citations and new product announcements. I posit that...
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Impact of production linkages on industrial upgrading in ASEAN, the People’s Republic of China, and India : organizational evidence of a global supply chain
Machikita, Tomohiro; Ueki, Yasushi - 2012
quite diverse across manufacturing firms within a local supply chain and within a global supply chain. Firms are likely to …
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Technology spillovers, asset redeployability, and corporate financial policies
Nguyen, Phuong Anh; Kecskés, Ambrus - 2021
Prior research shows that technology spillovers across firms increase innovation, productivity, and value. We study how firms finance their own growth stimulated by technology spillovers from their technological peer firms. We find that greater technology spillovers lead to higher leverage. This...
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Openness and urbanization : the case of the People's Republic of China
Lo, Chu-ping - 2016
Urbanization usually occurs with structural transformation driven by a "push" from agricultural productivity growth and a "pull" from industrial productivity growth, and usually the former exceeds the latter. This paper presents a simple model to illustrate how the open policy in the People's...
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The Republic of Korea's economic growth and catch-up : implications for the People's Republic of China
Lee, Jong-Wha - 2016
improves institutions and policy factors. While manufacturing- and export-oriented development served the Republic of Korea …
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Manufacturing as the key engine of economic growth for middle-income economies
Su, Dan; Yao, Yang - 2016
This paper revisits the role of the manufacturing sector during the middle-income stage. By exploiting a large dataset … that covers internationally comparable sectoral information, we prove that the manufacturing sector is imbued with three … important characteristics. First, for middle-income economies, manufacturing pulls along services, instead of the other way …
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The differential effects of technology and trade on female and male workers in India
Sharma, Shruti - 2019
This paper uses the task content model of occupations to investigate whether technology and trade have had differential effects on male and female workers in India. It describes trends in employment shares and wages for female and male workers based on whether they have routine manual, routine...
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Digital trade facilitation : paperless trade in regional trade agreements
Duval, Yann; Mengjing, Kong - 2017
Digital trade facilitation refers to the application of modern information and communication technologies (ICTs) to simplify and automate international trade procedures. It is rapidly becoming essential to maintaining trade competitiveness and enabling effective participation in cross-border...
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The middle-income trap and manufacturing transformation of the People's Republic of China (PRC) : Asian experience and the PRC's industrial policy orientation
Huang, Qunhui; Liu, Gang; He, Jun; Jiang, Feitao; … - 2017
The People's Republic of China (PRC) has been undergoing marvelous industrialization and manufacturing development in … and production. As the PRC becomes a middle-income economy, the established development pattern of manufacturing needs to … productivity of manufacturing, when they were in and out of the middle-income stages. We find that (1) the share of manufacturing …
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Urbanization and rural development in the People's Republic of China
Chen, Zhao; Lu, Ming; Ni, Pengtu - 2016
This paper presents research findings on how urbanization enhances productivity and economic growth in both urban and rural sectors. Through agglomeration effects, employment opportunities and income levels can largely increase. In addition, the mechanisms of sharing, matching, and learning are...
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