GONG, Robin
Source: https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/gong-robin Parent: https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/geo-economics-and-international-finance
GONG, Robin
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
Recent Activities
CHEN, Joy
LI, Jinlin
Industrial Policy in a New Era: Government Venture Capital in the US.-China Trade War
We study the impact of the US-China trade war on the role of government-funded venture capital (VC), as an instrument of industrial policies, in China's VC market. We document a sizeable disparity in the investment responses of government and private VCs to the trade war. While private VCs significantly reduced their investments, government VCs persistently ... Read More
[ Geo-economics and International Finance ]
MANOVA, Kalina
SUN, Stephen Teng
Tickets to the Global Market: First US Patents and Chinese Firm Exports
We investigate how international patent activity enables firms from emerging economies to thrive in the global marketplace. We match Chinese customs data to US patent records, and leverage the quasi-random assignment of USPTO patent examiners to identify the causal effect of a US patent grant on the subsequent export performance of Chinese firms. Successful ... Read More
[ Innovation and Entrepreneurship ]
This paper identifies the causal effect of U.S. multinationals’ technology shocks on their subsidiaries’ and nearby domestic firms’ productivity in China. By combining firm-level data from both the U.S. and China, I match U.S. multinationals with their manufacturing subsidiaries in China and measure the multinationals’ technology shocks to the local firms in ... Read More
[ BizTalks ]