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Environmentally Inclined Politicians and Local Environmental Performance:Evidence from Publicly Listed Firms in China May 31, 2023

Connections and Buildings collapse in the Sichuan Earthquake May 24, 2023

Government-Directed Urban Growth, Firm Entry, and Industrial Land Prices in Chinese Cities May 17, 2023

How Do Workers and Households Adjust to Robots? Apr 26, 2023

Voxchina China Economic Observation| The impact of excessive housing prices on contemporary young people Ⅱ Apr 19, 2023

Voxchina China Economic Observation| The impact of excessive housing prices on contemporary young people Ⅰ Apr 19, 2023

Opening Up in the 21st Century: A Quantitative Accounting of Chinese Export Growth Apr 12, 2023

Centralization or Decentralization? The Evolution of State-Ownership in China Apr 05, 2023

A Tale of Tier 3 Cities Mar 29, 2023

From Wall Street to Hong Kong:The Value of Dual Listing for China Concept Stocks Mar 22, 2023

The Value of Bankruptcy Court in Financial Distress: Evidence from Chinese Bond Market Mar 15, 2023

Voxchina China Economic Observation| Thematic analysis of female labor market Ⅰ Mar 10, 2023

Empowered Young Women: Trade Liberalization and Women’s Family Decisions in China Mar 08, 2023

Voxchina China economic observation | The pace of China economic recovery after COVID-19 Dec 31, 2022

Voxchina China economic observation | The Influence of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Imports and Exports Nov 15, 2022

Voxchina China economic observation | the impact of the epidemic on consumption and employment Aug 10, 2022

Voxchina economic observation: measures and effects to curb the spread of the epidemic Jul 22, 2022

Environmentally Inclined Politicians and Local Environmental Performance:Evidence from Publicly Listed Firms in China Hanming Fang, Honglin Ren, Danwen Song, Nianhang Xu, May 31, 2023 We investigate whether and how environmentally inclined politicians (EIPs), i.e., politicians with prior environment-related work experience, affect local environmental performance in China.

Connections and Buildings collapse in the Sichuan Earthquake Yiming Cao, May 24, 2023 This study investigates the factors contributing to building damage during the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.

Government-Directed Urban Growth, Firm Entry, and Industrial Land Prices in Chinese Cities Jan K. Brueckner, Wenhua Liu, Wei Xiao, Junfu Zhang, May 17, 2023 We examine the effect of large-scale administrative reorganization in China, where counties are annexed into cities to accommodate urban growth.

How Do Workers and Households Adjust to Robots? Osea Giuntella, Yi Lu, Tianyi Wang, Apr 26, 2023 We analyze the effects of exposure to industrial robots on labor markets and household behaviors, exploring longitudinal household data from the China Family Panel Studies.

Opening Up in the 21st Century: A Quantitative Accounting of Chinese Export Growth Loren Brandt, Kevin Lim, Apr 12, 2023 China’s rapid export growth has spurred extensive research investigating its effects on other economies. However, the exact causes of the boom as well as the slowdown in Chinese exporting after 2007 are less well understood.

Centralization or Decentralization? The Evolution of State-Ownership in China Franklin Allen, Junhui Cai, Xian Gu, Jun Qian, Linda Zhao, Wu Zhu, Apr 05, 2023 We developed an SOE index for all 40 million firms in China from 1990 to 2017 based on the dynamic EquiNet. This quantitative index is solely based on equity investments and thus clears up the mysteries of other self-report measures.

A Tale of Tier 3 Cities Kenneth Rogoff, Yuanchen Yang, Mar 29, 2023 This paper provides new estimates of the housing stock, construction rates, and price developments by city tier in China.

From Wall Street to Hong Kong:The Value of Dual Listing for China Concept Stocks Zhuo Chen, Grace Xing Hu, Ziqiong Xi, Xiaoquan Zhu, Mar 22, 2023 The recent cross-border regulation tensions between the US and China have exposed many US-listed China Concepts Stocks to substantial delisting risks, forcing them to pursue dual listings on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

The Value of Bankruptcy Court in Financial Distress: Evidence from Chinese Bond Market Bo Li, Mai Li, Songnan Li, Laura Xiaolei Liu, Mar 15, 2023 In this paper, we find that the introduction of specialized bankruptcy courts, which are run by better-trained judges and subject to less government intervention, reduces the cost of bond financing by around 10%.

Empowered Young Women: Trade Liberalization and Women’s Family Decisions in China Difei Ouyang, Weidi Yuan, Yuan Zi, Mar 08, 2023 How do women’s marriage and fertility decisions respond to trade liberalization? This column finds that Chinese prefectures more exposed to the US granting of permanent normal trade relations to China have experienced a relative increase in the fraction of unmarried young women and young women without children.

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Regional Variation of GDP per Head within China, 1080–1850: Implications for the Great Divergence Debate Stephen Broadberry, Hanhui Guan, Sep 28, 2022 We provide the first regional breakdown of GDP per head for China from the Song dynasty to the Qing, so that regions of similar size can be compared between Europe and Asia to establish the timing of the Great Divergence of living standards.

Combating Cross-Border Externalities Shiyi Chen, Joshua Graff-Zivin, Huanhuan Wang, Jiaxin Xiong, Sep 21, 2022 China implemented a pioneering policy in 2011, the Ecological Compensation Initiative (ECI), which establishes side payments between upstream and downstream provinces in the Xin’an River Basin.

Assessing and Addressing the Coronavirus-Induced Economic Crisis: Evidence from 1.5 Billion Sales Invoice Zhuo Chen, Pengfei Li, Li Liao, Zhengwei Wang, Aug 31, 2022 We probe the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent containment policies on business activities in China by exploiting big data on 1.5 billion sales invoices. The average drop in sales was between 23% and 35%, depending on firm size, for the 12-week period after the Wuhan lockdown.

Industrial Land Discount in China: A Public Finance Perspective Zhiguo He, Scott Nelson, Yang Su, Anthony Lee Zhang, Fudong Zhang, Jul 25, 2022 Local governments, which serve as monopolistic land sellers in China, face a trade-off when deciding to supply residential land versus industrial land. This trade-off is determined by the different time profiles of revenues from industrial and residential land sales, local governments’ financial constraints, and the extent of local governments’ tax revenue sharing with other levels of government.

Industry/Policy View Omnia Juncta in Uno: Foreign Powers and Trademark Protection in Shanghai’s Concession Era Laura Alfaro, Cathy Ge Bao, Maggie X. Chen, Junjie Hong, Claudia Steinwender, Jul 20, 2022 Trademarks, which identify the source of goods and services, account for the majority of intellectual property filings worldwide. We investigate how firms adapt to the introduction of trademark institutions by exploring a historical precedent: China’s trademark law of 1923, an unanticipated and disapproved response to end foreign privileges in China.

Dollar Funding Stresses in China Laura Kodres, Leslie Sheng Shen, Darrell Duffie, Jul 13, 2022 The need for US dollar funding during the financial stresses of March 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic shocked markets, was evident in a number of countries (Avdjiev, Eren, and McGuire 2020; Bahaj and Reis 2020).

Serial Entrepreneurship in China Loren Brandt, Ruochen Dai, Gueorgui Kambourov, Kjetil Storesletten, Xiaobo Zhang, Jul 06, 2022 New firms have been an important engine of growth in the Chinese economy (Brandt, Van Biesebroeck, and Zhang 2012). Drawing on data on the universe of all firms in China, we study entrepreneurship and the creation of new firms in China through the lens of entrepreneurs who operate a series of firms over their lifetime, i.e., serial entrepreneurs (SE).

An Empirical Overview of Chinese Capital Market Grace Xing Hu, Jun Pan, Jiang Wang, Jun 29, 2022 We provide an empirical review of the Chinese capital market, focusing on the basic return and risk characteristics of its major asset classes, as well as a comparison to the US market. All major asset classes in China have significant higher volatilities than their counterparts in the US market, but they do not always yield larger returns. Small-company stocks, short-, medium-, and long-term treasury bonds outperform their US counterparts, while large stocks underperform and long-term enterprise bonds yield similar returns.

Share Pledging in China: Funding Listed Firms or Funding Entrepreneurship? Zhiguo He, Bibo Liu, Feifei Zhu, Jun 01, 2022 Our recent study analyzes the use of share pledging funds in the context of China. Survey evidence shows that a majority of the largest shareholders (67.3%) used pledging funds outside their listed firms, including financing their entrepreneurial activities.

Mapping U.S.-China Technology Decoupling, Innovation, and Firm Performance Pengfei Han, Wei Jiang, Danqing Mei, Dec 01, 2021 We develop measures for technology decoupling and dependence between the U.S. and China based on combined patent data. The first two decades of the century witnessed a steady increase in technology integration (or less decoupling), but China’s dependence on the U.S. increased (decreased) during the first (second) decade. Decoupling in a technology field predicts China’s growing dependence on U.S. technology, which, in turn, predicts less decoupling further down the road...

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