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Title: | Trains of Thought: High-Speed Rail and Innovation in China |
Author: | Tsiachtsiras, Georgios Moreno Serrano, Rosina Miguélez, Ernest |
Keywords: | Trens d'alta velocitat Innovacions tecnològiques Patents d'invenció High speed trains Technological innovations Patents |
Issue Date: | 2022 |
Publisher: | Universitat de Barcelona. Facultat d'Economia i Empresa |
Series/Report no: | [WP E-IR22/20] [WP E-AQR22/10] |
Abstract: | This paper explores the effect of the High Speed Rail (HSR) network expansion on local innovation in China during the period 2008-2016. Using exogenous variation arising from a novel instrument - courier’s stations during the Ming dynasty, we find sòlid evidence that the opening of a HSR station increases cities’ innovation activity. We also explore the role of inter-city Technology diffusion as being behind the surge of local innovation. To do it, we compute least-cost paths between city-pairs, over time, based on the opening and speed of each HSR line, and obtain that an increase in a city’s connectivity to other cities specialized in a specific technological field, through the HSR network, increases the probability for the city to specialize in that same technological field. We interpret it as evidence of knowledge diffusion. |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: https://www.ub.edu/irea/working_papers/2022/202220.pdf |
It is part of: | IREA – Working Papers, 2022, IR22/20 AQR – Working Papers, 2022, IR22/10 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/191733 |
Appears in Collections: | AQR (Grup d’Anàlisi Quantitativa Regional) – Working Papers Documents de treball (Institut de Recerca en Economia Aplicada Regional i Pública (IREA)) |
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