This paper evaluates the welfare implications of privatization in emerging market economies, in countries where … policies are determined by the median voter. We show that privatization may lead to large efficiency gains by changing the menu … of taxes. We illustrate this point with two examples. First, we consider privatization of import competing public …

added production function of the State Owned (SOE) and Foreign-Funded Enterprises (FFE) in China, 1980s-2007. The transition … associated with the economic reforms in China is estimated applying a curvilinear logistic function, where the speed and the …

regressions account for not more than 2/3 of the variation. We apply the regression results to assess China's current account over …

competitive devaluations. The sheer size of China, and its lower sterilization costs suggests that China may be the winner of a … and precautionary motives in the context of China may be challenged by a version of the "peso problem." Hoarding …

) can be affected by the movements in the center economies - the U.S., Japan, the Eurozone, and China. We apply a two …

data and macroeconomic covariates, we find positive association of Chinese trade and financial flows with China's outward … strengthened by the provision of RMB swap-line agreements with China's trading partners. The evidences support the conjecture that …

China in the coming years. China had been a prime example of exported growth, benefiting from learning by doing, and by …, and the Global Financial Crisis forced China toward rebalancing, which is a work in progress. Reflecting on the …