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Financial Spillovers of Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence from China

Haoyuan Ding, Shu Lin, Shujie Wu, Haichun Ye, May 08, 2024

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has enhanced the financial conditions of Chinese enterprises, particularly through the financial spillover effects generated by supply chain connections, which have helped to reduce the burden of trade credit and increase opportunities for bank financing.

Financial Reporting and Disclosure Practices in China

Hai Lu, Jee-Eun Shin, Mingyue Zhang, Jul 04, 2024

This article discussing that Chinese firms tend to emphasize the stability of financial performance in their reports. In contrast to U.S. firms, their financial disclosures are significantly swayed by non-shareholder stakeholders and do not leverage voluntary disclosures to mitigate capital costs.

Housing Wealth and Online Consumer Behavior: Evidence from the Xiong’an New Area in China

Hanming Fang, Long Wang, Yang Yang, Nov 16, 2022

We provide new evidence on the causal effects of housing wealth on consumer behavior.

Local Government Financial Constraint and Spending Multiplier in China

Yang Su, Dec 28, 2022

Local fiscal policies have been very effective in China since 2000.

Sex and the City: Demographics, Spatial Sorting, and the Marriage Market

Min Fang, Zibin Huang, Yushi Wang, Yu Alan Yang, Apr 28, 2026

China's falling marriage rate reflects a fundamental spatial mismatch: as highly educated women sort into big cities with larger service sectors and less educated men concentrate in poorer regions, persistent hypergamous norms leave both groups without suitable local partners.