Trains of Thought: High-Speed Rail and Innovation in China
| dc.rights.license | open | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | TSIACHTSIRAS, Georgios | |
| dc.contributor.author | YIN, Deyun | |
| hal.structure.identifier | Bordeaux Sciences Economiques [BSE] | |
| dc.contributor.author | MIGUELEZ, Ernest
IDREF: 204287510 | |
| dc.contributor.author | MORENO, Rosina | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-12-09T11:51:31Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-12-09T11:51:31Z | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://oskar-bordeaux.fr/handle/20.500.12278/170547 | |
| dc.description.abstractEn | This paper explores the effect of the High Speed Rail (HSR) network expansion on local innovation in China during the period 2008-2016. Using exogenous variation arising from a novel instrument - courier’s stations during the Ming dynasty, we find solid evidence that the opening of a HSR station increases cities’ innovation activity. We also explore the role of inter-city technology diffusion as being behind the surge of local innovation. To do it, we compute least-cost paths between city-pairs, over time, based on the opening and speed of each HSR line, and obtain that an increase in a city’s connectivity to other cities specialized in a specific technological field, through the HSR network, increases the probability for the city to specialize in that same technological field. We interpret it as evidence of knowledge diffusion. | |
| dc.language.iso | EN | en_US |
| dc.rights | Attribution 3.0 United States | * |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/ | * |
| dc.subject.en | High speed rail | |
| dc.subject.en | Innovation | |
| dc.subject.en | Technology diffusion | |
| dc.subject.en | Patents | |
| dc.subject.en | Specialization | |
| dc.title.en | Trains of Thought: High-Speed Rail and Innovation in China | |
| dc.type | Document de travail - Pré-publication | en_US |
| dc.subject.hal | Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Economies et finances | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | R - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics::R4 - Transportation Economics::R40 - General | en_US |
| bordeaux.hal.laboratories | Bordeaux Sciences Economiques / Bordeaux School of Economics (BSE) - UMR 6060 | en_US |
| bordeaux.institution | Université de Bordeaux | en_US |
| bordeaux.institution | CNRS | en_US |
| hal.identifier | hal-03891705 | |
| hal.version | 1 | |
| hal.date.transferred | 2022-12-09T11:51:35Z | |
| hal.export | true | |
| dc.rights.cc | CC BY | en_US |
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