analyses China’s institution - a regionally decentralized authoritarian system. The central government has control over …China’s economic reforms have resulted in spectacular growth and poverty reduction. However, China’s institutions look … ill-suited to achieve such a result, and they indeed suffer from serious shortcomings. To solve "China puzzle" this paper …

China’s reform worked and produced some of the most impressive growth in the largest developing and transition economy … in the world in the past twenty-two years. That China has managed to grow so rapidly despite the absence of many … initial conditions and to function as stepping stones in the transition toward the goal. Underlying China’s reform is a serial …

understand where and how far China will move forward, this paper examines how its institution functioning. …China was the largest economy in the world before the end of the 19th century; then became one of the poorest countries … in the world in a few decades. Now China is returning to its historical past. To understand China’s development, and to …

This Paper reviews the controversy over China’s exchange rate regime. Placing the issue in the context of the … literature on exit strategies, it argues that now is the best time for China to exit from its peg. Moving to a managed float …

We investigate whether inward FDI, either at the firm or industry level, has any impact on product innovation by … Chinese State owned enterprises (SOEs). We use a comprehensive firm level panel data set of Chinese SOEs covering the period … 1999 to 2003. Our results show that foreign capital participation is associated with higher innovative activity. Inward FDI …

across local labour markets using a very large panel of French workers. We control for worker characteristics, worker fixed …

reforms: separating infrastructure and operations, creating independent regulatory institutions and providing access to the … network to third parties. To estimate the effects of reforms on railroad efficiency, we investigate a new World Bank panel …

We analyze competition between vertically integrated infrastructure operators that provide access in different …

that shape infrastructure policy. Our empirical findings on a panel of France's regions over 1985-91 suggest that influence …This paper proposes a simultaneous-equation approach to the estimation of the contribution of transport infrastructure … accumulation to regional growth. We model explicitly the political-economy process driving infrastructure investments; in doing so …