This paper considers evidence on business group productivity performance in China. It also carries out a detailed … investigation into China's 50 largest groups to see if pyramidal groups are forming. As such, we further explore what can be …. This could have important implications for longer-term productivity growth in China's business groups. …

Empirical evidence suggests that China has benefited from foreign direct investment (FDI). An important question that … remains unanswered is whether China has benefited more from FDI than other countries in general, and other transition and … that the impact of FDI is, on average, more positively significant for China than for the full sample of countries, but …

China and Mexico embarked, around the early 1980s, on the process of liberalization of trade and FDI and established …, significantly during 1990s. Both, but particularly China, have developed comparative advantage in export and production of many … industries, which had been initiated through import substitution. However, Mexico has achieved little, compared with China, in …

FDI in China. …

spillovers from competition on local firms in China. While the former type of spillover mainly depends on the degree of foreign …

between five firm types in China. When measured with the GE(1) index, overall wage inequality among Chinese provinces … increased by 50% between 1993 and 2007, most notably during the early 1990s as China accelerated its integration into the world …

membership, in which China is taken as the central country. Cluster analysis is applied for this study. Both hierarchical …, Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam are most converged with China, and these countries are more likely to be the member …

This paper throws light on the question: why did the industrial revolution happen in the West and not in China? The key … to an understanding of the development of China's civilization lies in the way China historically has been characterized … developed, while at the same time China's rich sources of inventions were often poorly institutionalized. These flaws were also …

provision, China continues to restrict commercial banks' permissible range of business activities via its 1995 Commercial Bank … opportunities and an increased risk of financial instability. Applying this framework to China, we first discuss the episode of … China's recent, gradual movement back towards integrated financial services provision. While improved risk management …