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News coverage of Confucius Institutes in the pre-Trump era 前特朗普时代孔子学院的新闻报道

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Economic and Political Studies-EPS Pub Date : 2021-02-13 DOI: 10.1080/20954816.2020.1870025

M. Akhtaruzzaman, N. Berg, D. Lien, Ying Wu

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引用次数: 1

Is the Confucian ethic a hindrance to economic development in China? 儒家伦理是否阻碍了中国的经济发展?

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Economic and Political Studies-EPS Pub Date : 2021-02-13 DOI: 10.1080/20954816.2020.1864840

Jie Zhang

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引用次数: 3

Roles of commodity futures derivatives and financial crises in global food security 商品期货衍生品和金融危机在全球粮食安全中的作用

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Economic and Political Studies-EPS Pub Date : 2021-02-10 DOI: 10.1080/20954816.2021.1872854

Victor Edem Sosoo, David Iheke Okorie, Hai-qiang Chen

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引用次数: 3

The economics of soft power: Reliance on economic resources and instrumentality in economic gains 软实力经济学：经济收益对经济资源和工具的依赖

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Economic and Political Studies-EPS Pub Date : 2021-01-25 DOI: 10.1080/20954816.2020.1865620

Daniele Carminati

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引用次数: 4

Willingness to pay to reduce future risk: a fundamental issue to invest in prevention behaviour 为减少未来风险而付费的意愿:投资于预防行为的一个基本问题

IF 2.4 4区社会学

Economic and Political Studies-EPS Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/20954816.2020.1827500

Jim Engle-Warnick, J. Heroux, C. Montmarquette

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引用次数: 2

Exposure to conspiracy theories in the lab 在实验室中暴露于阴谋论

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Economic and Political Studies-EPS Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/20954816.2020.1818930

Loukas Balafoutas, Alexander Libman, Vasileios Selamis, B. Vollan

引用次数: 1

How an All-or-Nothing insurance behaviour challenges economic policies: an experimental approach 要么全有要么全无的保险行为如何挑战经济政策：一种实验方法

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Economic and Political Studies-EPS Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/20954816.2020.1815397

Anne Corcos, François Pannequin, C. Montmarquette

引用次数: 1

Introduction 介绍

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Economic and Political Studies-EPS Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/20954816.2020.1837553

M. Villeval

引用次数: 0

Does technology transfer from the US to China harm American firms, workers, and consumers? A historical and analytic investigation 从美国到中国的技术转让会伤害美国公司、工人和消费者吗？历史分析调查

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Economic and Political Studies-EPS Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/20954816.2021.1933768

Victor Menaldo, Nicolas Wittstock

{"title":"Does technology transfer from the US to China harm American firms, workers, and consumers? A historical and analytic investigation","authors":"Victor Menaldo, Nicolas Wittstock","doi":"10.1080/20954816.2021.1933768","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20954816.2021.1933768","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Decades of spectacular economic growth have made China into an important geopolitical player. As Chinese companies improve their capabilities across several areas of advanced technology, including artificial intelligence, some US policymakers and pundits lament the country’s ‘unfair trade practices’ and serial ‘theft of American intellectual property’, particularly through so-called forced technology transfer. China hawks claim these practices hurt US companies, workers, and consumers. Do Chinese technology practices harm economic efficiency? What are their distributional consequences? To address these questions, we explore the different modalities of international technology transfer and flesh out their economic consequences. We also investigate the recent history of technology transfer, providing examples from the industrialisation experiences of European countries and the Asian Tigers. We surmise that current Chinese processes are neither novel nor alarming from the standpoint of either economic efficiency or distribution: US firms are collecting record royalty payments for their intellectual property from China and generating gangbuster profits due to their access to Chinese labour, suppliers, and the country’s growing consumer market. American consumers benefit from US–China economic interdependence and so do some workers. The consequences for the US economy as a whole are positive. While we are agnostic about whether these practices threaten America’s national security, we offer ideas for how to prevent China from acquiring its most sensitive military technology.","PeriodicalId":44280,"journal":{"name":"Economic and Political Studies-EPS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20954816.2021.1933768","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49636647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 2

Clientelism and identity 客户主义和身份

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Economic and Political Studies-EPS Pub Date : 2020-12-03 DOI: 10.1080/20954816.2020.1837335

James P. Habyarimana, Daniel Houser, Stuti Khemani, Viktor Brech, Ginny Seung Choi, Moumita Roy

引用次数: 0