Western contract law and the principle of freedom of contract are based on two premises: private ownership and a free … market. This paper argues that freedom of contract is not applicable to Chinese state-owned enterprises due to the unique … freedom of contract will lead to SOE managers' stripping of state assets and SOEs' reneging on bad bargain in the name of …

China's Urban and Rural Residents' Basic Medical Insurance (URRBMI) system recently was formed to integrate two prior … address this problem, we propose a practical contract mechanism that encourages each buyer to purchase a coverage amount that …

. The findings of this study reveal that Chinese courts favour damages over SP in breach of contract cases. In addition …

pressure in the economy. The first PFI-ish project in China, the Anqing Urban Road PPP project, has been successfully tendered …-led investors should be attributed to the power structure embedded in China's administrative system. Whilst leveraging this …

I study bargaining over contract arrangements—contractual flexibility and rental payments—that profoundly affects the … ex-post surplus of China's rural land rentals in the context of urban–rural separation. My theory suggests which …

The strict liability rule applies in Chinese Contract Law. This article analyses the features of the Chinese Contract … Law relating to "liabilities under pre-contract" and "pre-contractual liabilities" …

This paper studies the fact that 37 percent of the internal migrants in China do not sign a labor contract with their … employers, as revealed in a nationwide survey. These contract-free jobs pay lower hourly wages, require longer weekly work hours … contracts in the co-villager network increases the probability that a migrant accepts a contract-free job. We provide three …

The way in which formal contract enforcement becomes effective is a critically important but understudied question for … two basic-level courts in China, one in a more developed and the other in a less developed region. The level of economic … formal contract enforcement and economic development …