Globalization – improved access to integrated, anonymous markets – is claimed to crowd out cooperative relations: from … reciprocal exchange to lifetime employment, from relational governance to corruption/collusion. We study how agents …

We conduct the first systematic evaluation of the world’s largest community-based development program--China’s flagship … consumption of richer households by 6.1 to 9.2 percent. We also find suggestive evidence that governance matters in the …

In this Paper, we provide a case study of the impact of globalization on income inequality using data across Chinese … demonstrate a greater decline in urban-rural income inequality. Thus, globalization has helped to reduce, rather than increase …, the urban-rural income inequality. This pattern in the data suggests that inferences based solely on China's national …

In 2009, the United States imposed additional tariffs for a three-year period on imports of automotive tires from China … under a special-safeguard provision included in China’s Protocol of Accession to the WTO. China challenged the measure in … in which an accession protocol was used successfully as a defense; and the first that China lost as a complaining party …

properly designed - leniency may simultaneously provide an effective governance mechanism for occasional sequential illegal …

Recent events in several countries have underscored the importance of good governance in private occupational pension …. Under complete contracting, governance can be shown to be neutral: DC and DB plans differ only on risk allocation. If …

-profit entrepreneurs: kings, lords, or mafia dons. Though self-governance is best for the population, it faces problems of long …