Department of Economics

International cooperation is increasingly important for the growth of specialized knowledge in Economics. This paper examines the effect of the international affiliations of Chinese authors on their tenure-track publications. We say that a paper has international affiliations if it has one of the following three components: foreign co-authors, concurrent placements in foreign institutions for Chinese authors, and Ph.D. degrees earned in foreign institutions by Chinese authors. We find that foreign co-authors and foreign placements significantly increase the probability of tenure-track publications. The foreign degree also has a positive coefficient in logistic regression, but a statistical significance is lacking.