Purpose - Expanding and developing the theoretical implications of socialist market economy with China's experience. Design/methodology/approach - In the course of exploring the development of a market economy, China has given full play to the advantages of the socialist system, which has...

A model of heterogeneous firms with multiple products and two production factors (labor and capital) is used to study how trade liberalization affects firms’choices through both product and factor markets. Trade liberalization is shown to always redistribute capital toward more efficient firms...

A model of heterogeneous firms with multiple products and two production factors (labor and capital) is used to study how trade liberalization affects firms' choices through both product and factor markets. Trade liberalization is shown to always redistribute capital toward more efficient firms...

As computer science and complex network theory develop, non-cooperative games and their formation and application on complex networks have been important research topics. In the inter-firm innovation network, it is a typical game behavior for firms to invest in their alliance partners....

In the recent decade, emerging economies are rising, in which BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and more recently South Africa) have distinguished themselves with their rapid development to lead the tide of the world. Investigating the exceeding development plans, policies, path selections....

As computer science and complex network theory develop, non-cooperative games and their formation and application on complex networks have been important research topics. In the inter-firm innovation network, it is a typical game behavior for firms to invest in their alliance partners....

We study merger waves in vertically related industries where firms can engage in both vertical and horizontal mergers. Even though any individual merger would have been profitable, firms may refrain from merging for fear of negative impacts from other mergers. When they do merge, however, they...

This paper investigates optimal contracts between risk-neutral parties when both exert efforts and the agent faces limited liability. It is shown that a simple share-or-nothing with bonus contract (SonBo for short) is optimal and implements the second-best outcome, i.e., the best possible...

This paper examines a monopoly platform's two-sided pricing strategies in a setting with seller competition, which gives rise to not only positive cross-side network effects between buyers and sellers, but also a negative same-side network effect among sellers. We show that platform pricing...

When countries are asymmetric, trade with heterogeneous firms can crowd in less productive firms, and can reverse select less productive firms to specialize in export. Whether and how these outcomes will arise depends on a country’s standing in the world. In particular, reverse selection takes...