Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/252069 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 9552
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
This paper studies the causal effect of technology and knowledge transfers on early industrial development. Between 1950 and 1957, the Soviet Union supported the "156 Projects" in China for building technologically advanced industrial facilities. We exploit idiosyncratic delays in project completion and the unexpected end of the Sino-Soviet Alliance, and show that receiving both Soviet technology and know-how had large, persistent effects on plant performance, while the effects of receiving only Soviet capital goods were short-lived. The intervention generated horizontal and vertical spillovers, and production reallocation from state-owned to privately owned companies since the late 1990s.
Subjects: 
industrialization
technology transfer
knowledge diffusion
China
JEL: 
L20
M20
N34
N64
O32
O33
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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