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    • A Fire Sale without Fire: An Explanation of Labor-Intensive FDI in China 

      Zhang, Yifan; Yang, Zhi; Ma, Yue; Huang, Yasheng (Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008-08-01)
      Using a large firm-level panel dataset from the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics, we examine the effect of financial distortions on FDI inflows in China's labor-intensive industries. Following Whited and Wu (2006), ...
    • Semantic Distances for Technology Landscape Visualization 

      Madnick, Stuart; Woon, Wei Lee (Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008-08-25)
      This paper presents a novel approach to the visualization and subsequent elucidation of research domains in science and technology. The proposed methodology is based on the use of bibliometrics; i.e., analysis is conducted ...
    • Is Entrepreneurship Missing in Shanghai? 

      Huang, Yasheng; Qian, Yi (Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008-06-30)
      Using a unique census dataset on all industrial firms (with more than 5 million yuan in sales), we document a phenomenon of missing entrepreneurship in Shanghai. Entrepreneurship is defined as private, new entrants in ...