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Rural-Urban Migration and Market Integration
Dennis Egger, Benjamin Faber, Ming Li, Wei Lin, Nov 19, 2025Reductions in rural-to-urban migration barriers have led to economic gains for both rural origins and urban destinations by reducing information frictions and facilitating the flow of goods and investments between cities and the countryside.
China’s Successful Securities Regulation to Protect Investors
Thomas Bourveau, Xingchao Gao, Rongchen Li, Frank S. Zhou, Nov 12, 2025In emerging markets, controlling shareholders may extract private benefits at the expense of minority investors. To safeguard cash-flow rights, regulators have turned to dividend requirements, yet their rigidity risks stifling investments and growth. In China, the regulator successfully adopted an intermediate “comply-or-explain” approach to strengthen investor protection without forcing firms to forgo investments and growth.
The Externalities of ESG Disclosure
Yi Jiang, Ya Kang, Hao Liang, Jul 24, 2024This article discusses that China's mandatory Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) disclosure policies have led firms to increase their donations for poverty alleviation, yet paradoxically have also resulted in higher pollution levels, thereby highlighting the potential environmental negative externalities that can arise from the government's mild steering of corporate behavior through disclosure mandates.
“To Go Electric or to Burn Coal? A Randomized Field Experiment of Informational Nudges”
Hanming Fang, King King Li, Peiyao Shen, Feb 07, 2024We conducted a randomized field experiment of informational nudges in northern China to investigate the potential obstacles that may hinder households from adopting cleaner heating, and evaluate the effectiveness of simple SMS nudges in encouraging the transition to electric heating.
Ray of Hope? The Rise of Solar Energy in China
Ignacio Banares-Sanchez, Robin Burgess, Dávid László, Pol Simpson, John Van Reenen, Yifan Wang, Mar 25, 2026China’s solar subsidies triggered innovation and learning-by-doing that dramatically lowered global solar costs while generating domestic economic gains large enough to outweigh the subsidy costs, showing that green industrial policy can simultaneously boost growth and help fight climate change.
