Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/201690 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Working Paper No. HEIDWP07-2018
Publisher: 
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
Abstract: 
This paper examines how Korea's import and export linkages with China affect the innovation outcomes of Korean manufacturing firms. Using our automated algorithm, we match Korean patent data to KIS-Value firm data from 1996 to 2015. We find that rising import and export with China lead to more patent applications by Korean manufacturing firms, with the positive impact particularly driven by large or public firms compared to SMEs or private firms. Most importantly, all of these results hold only in those sectors with higher quality products than Chinese products, shedding lights on reconciling recent empirical studies that found conflicting evidence on "Schumpeterian force" and "escaping competition."
Subjects: 
Competition
Innovation
China Shock
Schumpeterian Force
Escaping Competition
JEL: 
F14
F16
O34
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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