Does High-Tech Export Cause More Technology Spillover? Evidence from Contemporary China

Who Cooks the Books in China, and Does It Pay? Evidence from Private, High-technology Firms

Research summary: We document the extent of fraudulent reporting among 467 private Chinese technology companies. Comparing the financial statements concurrently submitted to two different state agencies, we demonstrate a systematic gap in reported profit figures in the two sets of books. We find: (1) more than half the sampled companies report incentive-compatible, materially discrepant profit ...

Resource Spillover from Academia to High Tech Industry: Evidence from New Nanotechnology-Based Firms in the U.S

Price Bubbles Spillover among Asset Markets: Evidence from Iran

T his paper investigates the existence of possible spillover effects among four main asset markets namely foreign exchange, stock, gold, and housing markets in Iran from 2002:03 to 2015:06. For this purpose, we have exploited Sigma-Point Kalman Filter (SPKF) to extract the bubble component of assets prices in the aforementioned Markets. Then, in order to analyze the price bubbles spi...

Does Institutional Change in Universities Influence High-Tech Entrepreneurship? Evidence from China's Project 985

This paper contributes to institutional theory on cognitive and normative institutional change targeted at altering beliefs, behaviors, and ultimately firm performance. Prior work emphasizes institutional changes where the ideas and beliefs originate from those within the institutional context. Under examined are cases of institutional changes in beliefs and behaviors imposed from outside of th...

Does Innovation Matter for Chinese High - Tech

This paper examines the effect of innovation on export decision in Chinese high-tech firms during the period of 2005-2007. Using a parametric, instrumental variable approach and a non-parametric matching method, we find that firm-level innovation efforts, measured by R&D spending and new product output, play only a minor role for domestic exporters. Foreign-invested firms dominate the high-tech...