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PUBLICATIONS

The Impact of China’s R&D Subsidies on R&D Investment, Technological Upgrading and Economic Growth

(with J. Eberle and A. Howell), Technological Forecasting and Social Change 174, 121212, 2022.

Decoding China’s Virus Exceptionalism: The Community-based Digital Contact Tracing in Wuhan amid Covid-19

(with Y. Wang), R&D Management 51, 339-351, 2021. Video | ZEWnews

A Global Decline in Research Productivity? Evidence from China and Germany

(with P. Huenermund), Economics Letters 197, 109646, 2020. FAZ | NZZ | ZEWnews | Blog | Blog

Measuring China’s Patent Quality: Development and Validation of ISR Indices

(with E. Mueller), China Economic Review 57, 101331, 2019. ITIF

The Effect of Institutional Ownership on Firm Innovation: Evidence from Chinese Listed Firms

(with Z. Rong and X. Wu), Research Policy 46, 1533-1551, 2017.


Measuring Patent Quality in Cross-country Comparison

(with E. Mueller), Economics Letters 149, 145-147, 2016. WIWO | Welt


The Allocation and Effectiveness of China’s R&D Subsidies: Evidence from Listed Firms

Research Policy 45, 1774–1789, 2016. CGTN


China’s R&D Explosion: Analyzing Productivity Effects Across Ownership Types and Over Time

(with E. Mueller and P. Sandner), Research Policy 45, 159-176, 2016.

WORKING PAPERS

Global Influence of Inventions and Technology Sovereignty

(with E. Mueller),  ZEW Discussion Paper No. 24-024. FAZ

The Anatomy of Chinese Innovation: Insights on Patent Quality and Ownership

(with L. Brandt, R. Dai, K. Lim, B. Peters),  ZEW Discussion Paper No. 24-016.

The Anatomy of Chinese Innovation: Insights on Patent Quality and Ownership

(with L. Brandt, R. Dai, K. Lim, B. Peters),  IZA Institute of Labor Economics Discussion Paper No. 16869.

 

The Anatomy of Chinese Innovation: Insights on Patent Quality and Ownership

(with L. Brandt, R. Dai, K. Lim, B. Peters),  University of Toronto, Department of Economics Working Paper 770.

 

Misappropriation of R&D Subsidies: Estimating Treatment Effects with One-sided Noncompliance

(with B. Peters),  AIEA Working Paper A220807. AIEA-NBER Conference Video

Misappropriation of R&D Subsidies: Estimating Treatment Effects with One-sided Noncompliance

(with B. Peters), ZEW Discussion Paper No. 21-081. NZZ | China Table | China Table | Award | New Things Under the Sun

Misappropriation of R&D Subsidies: Estimating Treatment Effects with One-sided Noncompliance

(with B. Peters), IZA Institute of Labor Economics Discussion Paper No. 14852.

Misappropriation of R&D Subsidies: Estimating Treatment Effects with One-sided Noncompliance

(with B. Peters), China Center for Economic Research (CCER) Working Paper E2021007.

Misappropriation of R&D Subsidies: Estimating Treatment Effects with One-sided Noncompliance

(with B. Peters), University of Luxembourg, Department of Economics and Management Discussion Paper, 2021-23.

The Innovative Performance of China's National Innovation System

(with P. Sandner), Frankfurt School of Finance & Management Working Paper Series, No. 158, 2011.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Global Influence of Inventions and Technology Sovereignty

ZEW Expert Brief, No. 1, Mannheim, 2024. FAZ

Is there a slowdown in research productivity? Evidence from China and Germany

OECD, Artificial Intelligence in Science: Challenges, Opportunities and the Future of Research, Paris, 2023.

 

A New China Shock?, The Untold Story of China’s R&D Subsidies

ZEW Expert Brief, No. 10, Mannheim, 2021. NZZ | China Table | China Table

More R&D, Less Growth? China’s Decreasing Research Productivity in International Comparison

ZEW Policy Brief, No. 8, Mannheim, 2020. FAZ | NZZ | ZEWnews | Blog | Blog

 

Innovative China: R&D Subsidies, Patent Measures, and Productivity

ZEW Expert Brief, No. 15, Mannheim, 2020. NZZ | ZEWnews

Direct investment between Germany and China from an innovation policy perspective (in German)

(with N. Dürr and C. Rammer), Commission of Experts for Research and Innovation (EFI). Berlin, 2020 (contribution to the EFI Report 2020).

China's Innovation Policy – Implications for Germany (in German)

VDMA and IMPULS Foundation, Fifth Colloquium for Economic Policy: Does System Competition with China Require a New Industrial Policy?, Frankfurt am Main, 10-11, 2020.

Innovative China: New Drivers of Growth

Consultant on innovation policy for the World Bank Group; Development Research Center of the State Council, The People's Republic of China. Washington, DC, 2019. The Economist

R&D Subsidies in China (in German)

(with G. Licht), German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Sino-German Innovation Platform, Policy Briefs, Berlin, 30-37, 2015.

R&D, Patents, and Productivity

German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Innovation in China, Vol. 10. Special Edition 08/15, Bonn, 34-35, 2015.

 

Chinese Champions: Patente Made in China (in German)

Technische Universität München (TUM), Munich Innovation Group. Munich, 2012. Deutschlandfunk

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