Prof. Yundan Gong Ph.D.

Yundan Gong

KCG External Research Fellow
Associate Professor of Development Economics
Department of International Development
King’s College London
Email: yundan.gong@kcl.ac.uk

Research Interests:

    • International Economics
    • Development Economics
    • Foreign Direct Investment
    • Impact of Globalisation

 


New KCG Study Investigates Impact of Exports on Innovation in China

14th June 2021
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Economists generally agree on a connection between exports and innovation and the former fuels the latter. Several studies also report the existence of such export-driven innovation for Chinese exporters.
In addition to the direct impact of exports on innovation among exporters, there is a further effect, namely an indirect or spillover effect of exports. Non-exporters can theoretically also become more innovative, when information accumulated by exporters in the same region or sector gets spilled over to the non-exporters[...]

KCG Working Paper No. 24: Exports and New Products in China – A Generalized Propensity Score Approach with Firm-to-Firm Spillovers

14th June 2021
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Autthors: Yundan Gong and Aoife Hanley

Underpinning China’s technological advancement are the twin-engines of exports and innovation. To better understand China’s meteoric economic transformation, we explore the extent to which new products are triggered by exports (direct effects) and by exposure to other exporters (indirect effects)[...]