Recent work on China's accession to the World Trade Organizations pays little attention to the wave of reforms in China … exports and set the stage for China's increases in domestic value added and reduction in China's involvement in global … accession-related effects on export volumes in the literature, finds that the accession must have increased China's real export …

decisions highly contingent on firm characteristics and past performance, complicating the identification of the privatization … requirements in China. This paper finds that Chinese cities whose top officials were older than age 58 were 20 percent less likely … specification (including its random-growth variant). The paper further finds that the privatization effects are significantly larger …

A void in the literature on the business environment is how it evolves over time. Focusing on China during its crucial … better educated, with more diverse sectoral experience. Market competition increased over time, especially after China …

independent regulation, partial privatization of the generation company (KenGen), and establishment of complementary entities …

Russia's WTO accession in 2012 competitive pressures on Belarus' major market for non-mineral exports have further … intensified. As Belarus is accelerating its own negotiations with the WTO, understanding the challenges and opportunities faced by … economic impacts of Belarus' potential accession to the WTO. The note utilizes a modern computable general equilibrium model of …