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Wan-Hsin Liu

Knowledge Creation and Growth

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Current research topics

Innovation, technology and knowledge transfer
Innovation policy
Innovation system (Regional/National)

Current Projects:
1) DFG Priority Program "Megacities-megachallenge: Informal Dynamics of Global Change", Project PRD6: Regional Agility in the Wake of Crisis - Towards a New Growth Model in the Great Pearl River Delta?
2) BMBF Project: IfW-CASS-GIGA Initiative for Global Economic Research

Expertise

Innovation and Higher Education in China
Economic transformation and institutional development in China
Economic integration in East Asia

Short biography

Born on 28.Dec.1979 in Taipei, Taiwan
1998-2002	Bachelor studies of accouting at the National Taiwan University, Taiwan (Degree: Bachelor)
2003-2006	Economic studies with focus on "International Economic Relationships"& nbsp;and "Money and Credit" at the University of Münster (Degree: Diplom (German), equivalent to Master degree)
10/2006	Diplom Vol kswirtin, University of Münster
seit 02/2007	Researcher at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy
seit 10/2007 seit 01/2011	Participant in the doctoral programm "Quantitative Economics" at the University Kiel IfW Coordinator, IfW-CASS-GIGA Scientific Network for Global Economic Research

Selected projects

Selected publications

Bickenbach, F., Liu, W. (2011). Von den Werkbänken in die Hörsäle - Chinesische Hochschulbildung: zentraler Wettbewerbsfaktor im Wandel. Ökonomenstimme, KOF Konjunkturforschungsstelle der ETH Zürich, Zürich
Hanley, A., Liu, W., Vaona, A. (2011). Have Chinese innovators (and banks) finally grown-up?. VOXEu, VoxEU
Liu, W., Nunnenkamp, P. (2011). Domestic Repercussions of Different Types of FDI: Firm-level Evidence for Taiwanese Manufacturing . World Development, 39 (5), 808-823.
Bickenbach, F., Liu, W. (2010). On the Role of Personal Relationships for Doing Business in the Greater Pearl River Delta, China. China Economic Journal, 3(3), 281-306.
Bickenbach, F., Liu, W. (2011). Regional Inequality of Higher Education in China and the Role of Unequal Economic Development. Kiel Working Paper, 1692, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Kiel, 30pp.
Hanley, A., Liu, W., Vaona, A. (2011). Financial Development and Innovation in China: Evidence from the Provincial Data. Kiel Working Paper, 1673, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Kiel, 35 pp.