Personal Profile

Dr. Boeing is an Associate Professor at the Goethe University Frankfurt and a Senior Researcher at the ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research in Mannheim, Germany. His research investigates the role of innovation incentives and the impact of innovation on firm performance and economic growth. His work is characterized by a combination of unique micro data, econometric analysis and empirical advances. He is particularly interested in policy evaluation, patent indicators, productivity, and import competition. With a strong empirical focus on China and its global rise, he maintains a critical understanding of the data generating process and institutions in China. He has advised the World Bank, the OECD, and the German Commission of Experts for Research and Innovation, among others. He was an Assistant Professor at Peking University, a Taiwan Fellow at Academia Sinica, and is a Research Affiliate with the IZA – Institute of Labor Economics.

Selected Publications

Publications in refereed Journals

1. Boeing, P., Eberle, J., Howell, A. 2022. The Impact of China’s R&D Subsidies on R&D Investment, Technological Upgrading and Economic Growth. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 174, 121212.

2. Boeing, P., Wang, Y. 2021. Decoding China’s Covid-19 “Virus Exceptionalism”: The Community-based Digital Contact Tracing in Wuhan. R&D Management 51, 339-351.

3. Boeing, P., Huenermund, P. 2020. A Global Decline in Research Productivity? Evidence from China and Germany. Economics Letters 197, 109646.

4. Boeing, P., Mueller, E. 2019. Measuring China’s Patent Quality: Development and Validation of ISR Indices, China Economic Review 57, 101331.

5. Rong, Z., Wu, X., Boeing, P. 2017. The Effect of Institutional Ownership on Firm nnovation: Evidence from Chinese Listed Firms, Research Policy 46, 1533-1551.

6. Boeing, P. and Mueller, M. 2016. Measuring Patent Quality in Cross-country Comparison, Economics Letters 149, 145-147.

7. Boeing, P. 2016. The Allocation and Effectiveness of China’s R&D Subsidies–Evidence from Listed Firms, Research Policy 45, 1774–1789.

8. Boeing, P., Mueller, M., Sandner, P. 2016. China’s R&D Explosion–Analyzing Productivity Effects Across Ownership Types and Over Time, Research Policy 45, 159-176.