Industrial Clusters in the Long Run: Evidence from Million-Rouble Plants in China

Technology Transfer and Early Industrial Development: Evidence from the Sino-Soviet Alliance

“…The findings documented in this section may seem at odd with those reported by Heblich et al (2020), that by comparing counties where the 156 Projects were located with counties suitable to host them but that were not selected, find that the former had a significant productivity advantage that was fully eroded during the 1990s due to overspecialization and reduced innovation. However, we compare firms and counties that were selected to be part of the 156 Projects and eventually received different types of Soviet transfers or did not.…”

“…Our setting allows us to disentangle the spillover effects of technology transfer from knowledge spillovers that follow know-how diffusion, and their interactions with major institutional changes. In terms of context, a closely related paper is Heblich et al (2020) that also studies the Sino-Soviet technology transfer. However, they focus on long-run negative spillovers of the 156 Projects on counties that hosted them, relative to counties suitable to host them that were eventually not selected.…”