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Visible Hands: Professional Asset Managers’Expectations and the Stock Market in China

John Ammer, John Rogers, Gang Wang, Yang Yu, Aug 02, 2023

Mutual funds have become an important type of private institutional investor in Chinese security markets, with assets under management exceeding $3 trillion.

Early Childhood Exposure to Health Insurance and Adolescent Outcomes: Evidence from Rural China

Wei Huang, Hong Liu, Jul 19, 2023

We examine the impact of early-life exposure to public health insurance, the New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS), on outcomes in adolescence in rural China.

Homemade Foreign Trading

Zhiguo He, Yuehan Wang, Xiaoquan Zhu, Jul 26, 2023

Our recent study provides evidence that Chinese mainland insiders tend to evade see-through surveillance by round-tripping via the Stock Connect program.

Implicit Guarantees and the Rise of Shadow Banking: the Case of Trust Products

Franklin Allen, Xian Gu, C. Wei Li, Jun Qian, Yiming Qian, Sep 06, 2023

The prevalent implicit guarantees provided by financial intermediaries have been a central feature of shadow banking products in China. Our theoretical investigation shows that providing implicit guarantees can be the second-best arrangement and mitigate capital misallocation.

Employee Output Response to Stock Market Wealth Shocks

Teng Li, Wenlan Qian, Wei A. Xiong, Xin Zou, Sep 27, 2023

Exploiting individual-level data linking worker performance and stock investment, we show that a 10% increase in stock investment returns is associated with a decrease in the same investor’s work output by 3.8% in the following month.