# GONG, Robin

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GONG, Robin

Assistant Professor

Department of Economics

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### Recent Activities

CHEN, Joy

[GONG, Robin](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/gong-robin)

LI, Jinlin

[Industrial Policy in a New Era: Government Venture Capital in the US.-China Trade War](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2026/02/industrial-policy-new-era-government-venture-capital-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
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[ [Geo-economics and International Finance](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/geo-economics-and-international-finance "Geo-economics and International Finance") ]

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[GONG, Robin](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/gong-robin)

[LI, Yao](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/faculty/li-yao)

MANOVA, Kalina

SUN, Stephen Teng

[Tickets to the Global Market:  First US Patents and Chinese Firm Exports](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2026/01/tickets-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
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[ [Innovation and Entrepreneurship](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/innovation-and-entrepreneurship "Innovation and Entrepreneurship") ]

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[Technology Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Intellectual Property: Local Technology Spillovers of Multinational Firms](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/2020/06/technology-innovation-entrepreneurship-and-intellectual-property-local)

[Multinational Firms](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/multinational-firms)

[Technology Spillovers](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/technology-spillovers)

[Patent](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/patent)

[Productivity](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/productivity)

[Interdisciplinary Seminar](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/tag/interdisciplinary-seminar)

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
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[ [BizTalks](https://bm.hkust.edu.hk/bizinsight/biztalks "BizTalks") ]

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