This paper investigates the long-run effects of prolonged air pollution on firm-level human capital, knowledge and innovation composition. Using a novel firm-level dataset covering almost all industrial firms engaged in science and technology activities in China, and employing a regression...

Absolute dominance of local brands is one of the most salient features of China’s regional battery electric vehicle (BEV) market. We use the entry of local BEV enterprises from 2016 to 2019 as a treatment to analyze how the presence of local producers shapes the regional market structure of...