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 …

How can a non-democratic ruler provide proper incentives for state bureaucracy? In the absence of competitive elections …

Paper argues that the thin line between efficient management practices and inefficient bureaucracy is crossed to curb … managerial agency costs in a multi-layer hierarchy. The model predicts that bureaucracy increases with the frequency of … managerial turnover, and it establishes a link between bureaucracy, incentive schemes, and leverage in a cross-section of firms. …

This paper investigates the role of violent civil conflicts during the process of democratization for the quality of … different groups may engage in violent conflict in order to become the ruler predicts a crucial role of the democratization … scenario. A peaceful democratization leads to democracies with a high degree of civil liberties, reflecting a social contract …

We identify permanent democratic transitions during the Third Wave of Democratization and the nineties, when many … that democratization is more likely to emerge in affluent and especially educated societies. Economic development and …

regime change and not democratization. We identify and examine 90 successful, failed, and gradual transitions that have … occurred over the last half century. This new classification permits us to compare successful episodes of democratization with … that the growth dividend from political transition is a result of regime change and not democratization, and also offer new …

conditional on beliefs about property rights enforcement. Democratization is endogenous, but the features of democracies are shown … to be crucially related to the conditions under which democratization initially takes place. Democratic transitions …