Innovation plays a key role in economic growth. In this paper, we investigate the effects of intermediate input tariff … reduction on the innovation activities of domestic firms. Input tariff reduction has two opposite effects on the innovation … decision of a firm: it may promote innovation because the cost of innovation activities decreases, but it may also result in a …

Innovation plays a key role in economic growth. In this paper, we investigate the effects of intermediate input tariff … reduction on the innovation activities of domestic firms. Input tariff reduction has two opposite effects on the innovation … decision of a firm: it may promote innovation because the cost of innovation activities decreases, but it may also result in a …

more invention patent applications after China’s WTO accession.We alsofind thatfirms’innovation responses to TPU reduction …

This paper investigates whether and how import competition affects firm innovation. Using China’s World Trade … Organization (WTO) accession as a quasi-natural experiment, we find that import competition reduces firm innovation, which is …