Arbeitspapier
Technology Transfer and Early Industrial Development: Evidence from the Sino-Soviet Alliance
This paper studies the causal effect of technology and knowledge transfers on early industrial development. Between 1950 and 1957, the Soviet Union supported the "156 Projects" in China for building technologically advanced industrial facilities. We exploit idiosyncratic delays in project completion and the unexpected end of the Sino-Soviet Alliance, and show that receiving both Soviet technology and know-how had large, persistent effects on plant performance, while the effects of receiving only Soviet capital goods were short-lived. The intervention generated horizontal and vertical spillovers, and production reallocation from state-owned to privately owned companies since the late 1990s.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 9552
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior: General
Business Economics: General
Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: Europe: 1913-
Economic History: Manufacturing and Construction: Europe: 1913-
Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
- Thema
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industrialization
technology transfer
knowledge diffusion
China
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Giorcelli, Michela
Li, Bo
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
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Munich
- (wann)
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2022
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Giorcelli, Michela
- Li, Bo
- Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Entstanden
- 2022