Interwar Technology Transfer Agreements Between U.S. Firms and the Soviet Union: 1920-1940

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Jacob Weber, Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Jerry Jiang, University of California-Berkeley

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county_panel_of_TTAs.csv text/csv 10.6 MB 11/05/2024 09:34:AM
county_panel_of_TTAs.dta application/x-stata-dta 12.3 MB 11/05/2024 09:33:AM
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Project Citation: 

Weber, Jacob, and Jiang, Jerry. Interwar Technology Transfer Agreements Between U.S. Firms and the Soviet Union: 1920-1940. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2024-11-05. https://doi.org/10.3886/E210261V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary This repository contains the data and replication files for Jiang and Weber (2024)[1] who provide data on 173 Technology Transfer Agreements signed between U.S. firms and the Soviet Union during the interwar period, along with locations of the signing firm (for 139 agreements) and the year each firm signed (for 131 agreements). This data is available both as individual agreements (listing the city each signing firm was located in) and as county-level aggregates which are then matched to demographic data from the 1930 Census and data on bank failures from the FDIC for the period 1920 to 1936 to form a yearly panel dataset used for the analysis in the paper. 

[1] Jiang, Jerry and Jacob Weber. “Who Collaborates with the Soviets? Financial Distress and Technology Transfer during the Great Depression.” http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4769743, 2024.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms technology transfer; technology; industrial development; economic planning; industrial policy; technology assistance; USSR
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage United States
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 1920 – 1940 (Interwar Period)
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) other
Collection Notes:  View help for Collection Notes We collected these agreements and provided estimated dates and locations from a wide variety of historical sources. Please see the associated paper for details (Jiang and Weber, 2024). 

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Geographic Unit:  View help for Geographic Unit US Cities

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