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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.

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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

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

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

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

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

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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

Misuse of China's 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 | AIEA-NBER Conference Video

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Global Influence of Inventions and Technology Sovereignty

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

FAZ

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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.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Global Influence of Inventions and Technology Sovereignty

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

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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

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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

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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).

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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.

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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

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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.

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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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The Innovative Performance of China's National Innovation System

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

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