subcontracting. `Illegal' trade between China and Taiwan has been induced by Taiwan's `no direct trade' policy. Illegal trade such as …China's trade has three features: high incidence of re-exports through Hong Kong, high degree of trade related to ….S. data and accounting for re-exports, the U.S.-China trade balance has to be lowered by 35 percent. Foreign investments in …

Using a randomized experiment with an automobile manufacturing firm in China, we measure the effects of letting workers …

tremendous growth in sales---over 200 percent from 2008 to 2015---and concerns over local air quality have prompted China … behavior to China's largest national subsidy program for fuel efficient vehicles during 2010 and 2011. Using variation from the …

In this paper, we study the effects of FDI on domestic employment by examining the data of Taiwan's manufacturing … employment is a combination of substitution and output effects. For Taiwan, the net effect is positive in most cases but it …

We view the political process in China as trading off the social benefits of increased trade and foreign direct … of this model are estimated using province-level data on foreign direct investment and trade flows in China, over the … China may find it politically difficult to follow through with liberalizing its trade and investment regimes, such as under …

Compared with China's dominance in world trade, its expanding role in global finance is poorly documented and … understood. Over the past decades, China has exported record amounts of capital to the rest of the world. Many of these financial … flows are not reported to the IMF, the BIS or the World Bank. "Hidden debts" to China are especially significant for about …

The First Opium War (1840-42) was a watershed in the history of China. In its aftermath Britain and other countries …-organized under Western management, Western legal institutions were introduced in China in form of courts and legal practices, and … foreigners in China were tried according to the laws of their country of origin (extraterritoriality). To better understand the …