Identifying Knowledge Spillovers from Universities: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Urban China

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主讲人：刘诗濛，暨南大学经济与社会研究院助理教授

时间：2021年4月9日，星期五，14：00-15：30

地点：中国人民大学明德主楼623会议室

报告摘要：

This paper studies the impact of universities on local innovation activity by exploiting a unique university expansion policy in China as a quasi-experiment. We take a geographic approach, empowered by geocoded data on patents and new products at the address level, to identify knowledge spillovers as an important channel. We obtain three main findings. First, university expansion significantly increases universities' own innovation capacity, which results in a dramatic boom of local patents not related to universities. Second, the impact of university expansion on local innovation activities attenuates sharply within 2 kilometers of the universities. Third, university expansion boosts nearby firms' new products and the number of nearby industrial patents that cite university patents but not those industrial patents that cite patents far away from universities.

作者简介：

刘诗濛，现任暨南大学经济与社会研究院助理教授。2014年获美国雪城大学经济学博士学位。研究领域为城市与房地产经济学、劳动经济学、和中国经济。学术论文发表于Journal of Urban Economics、Regional Science and Urban Economics等著名期刊，主持国家自然科学基金项目。

区域与城市经济学研讨会（Regional and Urban Economics Seminar）由中国人民大学应用经济学院区域与城市经济研究所定期推出，旨在为研究中国区域与城市经济问题的学者提供交流的平台。

联系人：卢昂荻（angdilu@ruc.edu.cn）