Philipp Boeing
Researcher
Personal Profile
Dr. Philipp Boeing is a Senior Researcher at ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research in Mannheim and a Research Associate at the Research Center for Technological Innovation at Tsinghua University. His research examines the role of innovation incentives and the impact of innovation on firm performance and economic growth. His work is characterized by the combination of unique micro data, econometric analysis, and methodological advancements. He is particularly interested in policy evaluation, patent indicators, productivity, and import competition.
With a strong empirical focus on China and its rise in the global economy, he maintains a critical understanding of the data generation process and institutions in China. Based on his research, he has advised the World Bank and the German Expert Commission on Research and Innovation, among others. He was a Visiting Professor at Peking University for two years and is a Research Affiliate of 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.
