Findings

This work offers new insights into foreign investment in China, offering evidence for the presence of homemade “foreign” investors who are likely...

Non-tariff trade barriers reduced Chinese imports from the US by 50% during the height of the US-China trade war in 2018 and...

The average firm in the venture capital and private equity market in China dislikes investors with government ties, indicating that the benefits...

Local Chinese governments face a trade-off between supplying residential or industrial land, and this work reveals the importance of taxes and revenue...

This analysis shows that shareholders increased their entrepreneurial activities significantly following the 2013 launch of the exchange market, relative to legal entity...

While China’s bureaucratic and institutional conditions make large-scale policy experimentation possible, the country’s complex political environments can also limit the scope and...

The poorest countries of the world have so far avoided the worst of Covid-19, a result we attribute to a younger population...