This chapter reviews the empirical economics literature on the impact of trade liberalization
on firms' innovation-related outcomes. We define and examine four types of shocks to trade …

This chapter reviews the new approach to international trade based on firm heterogeneity in
differentiated product markets. This approach explains a variety of features exhibited in …

This study uses the data of China's A-share listed companies and prefecture-level cities to
investigate how digital transformation overcomes enterprise innovation dilemma. It is found …

Under the network public opinion ecology in the Omni-media Era, corporate social
responsibility (CSR) performance can provide important internal and external environmental …

We study the microeconomic implications of robot adoption using a rich panel data set of
Spanish manufacturing firms over a 27-year period (1990–2016). We provide causal …

Why do living standards differ so much across countries? A consensus in the development
literature is that differences in productivity are a dominant source of these differences. But …

Clean hydrogen is now clearly recognised as one of the key elements in achieving climate
neutrality. However, the overall structure of the future clean hydrogen market is still subject …

The rapid development of digital economy challenges the innovation theory under the
traditional economic background. The consequences of digital economy on breakthrough …

We study the nonparametric identification of gross output production functions under the
environment of the commonly employed proxy variable methods. We show that applying …

Integrating a variety of disruptive information technologies and advanced manufacturing
technologies, intelligent manufacturing (IM) has been increasingly adopted by …