U.S. Innovation and Chinese Competition for Innovation Production

In this paper, we examine how competitive shocks from China impact U.S. innovation through two distinct margins: the markets for innovation and existing products. 

Increasingly there has been a focus on the impact of China's meteoric rise as an economic power and its impact on the innovation spending by established…

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Technological Disruptive Potential and the Evolution of IPOs and Sell-Outs

Since the late 1990s, the number of private firms exiting via initial public offerings (IPOs) in U.S. markets has sharply declined. At the same time, the number of exits via acquisitions (i.e., sell-outs) has soared. Successful firms are nowadays more likely to sell-out to other (public or private) companies than…

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