, however, may be affected by relationships between auditor and target. We study whether provincial chief auditors in China show …

second from China. In each case, we find that women are far less likely to be investigated for corruption than men. In our … enforcement authorities; in China, female prefectural leaders are as much as 75 percent less likely to be arrested for corruption …

We document the market response to an unexpected announcement of proposed sales of government-owned shares in China. In …

that entrepots may facilitate tariff evasion. Using data on direct exports to mainland China and indirect exports via Hong …

Many studies of regional disparity in China have focused on the preferential policies received by the coastal provinces …

China. The novel feature of our approach is that at a very disaggregated level of individual products, we can measure … evasion relatively precisely, by comparing the values that China reports as imports from Hong Kong, with what Hong Kong … reports as exports to China. We can match up this evasion gap' with the tariff (and VAT tax) schedule at the product level …

Broadly speaking, two schools of thought have emerged to interpret China's rapid growth since 1978:the experimentalist … school and the convergence school. The experimentalist school attributes China's successes to the evolutionary, experimental …, and incremental nature of China's reforms. Specifically, the resulting non-capitalist institutions are said to be …

We study favoritism via hometown ties, a common source of favor exchange in China, in fellow selection of the Chinese …