We discuss the considerable literature that has developed in recent years providing rigorous
evidence on how industrial policies work. This literature is a significant improvement over …

We discuss recent work evaluating the role of the government in shaping the economy
during the long nineteenth century, a practice we refer to as industrial policy. States …

Economic theory suggests that market economies are likely to underprovide innovation
because of the public good nature of knowledge. Empirical evidence from the United States …

Manufacturing accounts for more than three-quarters of US corporate patents. The
competitive shock to this sector emanating from China's economic ascent could in theory …

This study quantifies the relationships between innovation activity and the outcomes of
business-to-consumer (B2C), business-to-business (B2B), and business-to-government …

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 …

In principle, firms in developing countries benefit from the fact that advanced technologies
and products have already been developed in industrialized countries and can simply be …

We provide a review of the recent literature–both theoretical and empirical–analyzing the
multi-dimensional connections between globalization and innovation. We develop a model …

This study empirically tested the cyclical and nonlinear nexus between innovation and
economic growth using simultaneous equation modeling approach for thirty-six OECD …

We study how opening to trade affects economic growth in a model where heterogeneous
firms can adopt new technologies already in use by other firms in their home country. We …