In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of … performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and sustained effects of entrepreneurs at all levels of the performance … suggest that an often overlooked factor - individual entrepreneurs - plays a large role in affecting firm performance. …

China has been provoked into speeding renmnibi internationalization. But despite rapid growth in offshore financial … could attract even more hot money inflows, the People’s Bank of China should focus on tightly stabilizing the yuan/ dollar … exchange rate to encourage naturally high wage increases for balancing China’s international competitiveness. …

China keeps its exchange rate tightly fixed to the dollar. Its productivity growth and trade surplus have been high … reduce China’s trade surplus but could cause serious deflation in China. To show this, we consider international adjustment … between China and the United States from both an asset-market and a labor-market perspective, and compare this to Japan …

provides an important role model for China, this paper studies the role of the yen/dollar exchange rate for Japanese monetary …

potentially subsidized capital allocation in China the real yuan/dollar rate is undervalued. This has caused—both in China and the …