private sector in urban China. We show that a reform that untied access to housing in urban areas from working for the state …

deregulation in China. Such deregulation leads to higher screening standards, lower interest rates, and lower delinquency rates for …

Arguments in favor of school choice depend on the idea that competition between schools improves the quality of … education. However, we have almost no empirical evidence on whether competition actually affects school quality. In this study …, I examine the effects of inter-school competition on public schools by using exogenous variation in the availability and …

allocation. We develop a two-stage estimation approach and apply it to China's loan-level data that covers all sectors in the …

We use firm-level data to identify financial frictions in China and explore the extent to which they can explain firms …

and widely taking place in China, it is much less known whether and to what extent privatization has improved resource …

This paper studies dynamic labor demand by private and public manufacturing plants in China. It contributes along two …

China's high corporate savings rate is commonly claimed to be a key driver for the country's large current account …

We study the efficiency of capital allocations at state-controlled and privately owned business groups in China. Using …

compares the actual performance of markets in Europe and China, two regions of the world that were relatively advanced in the … findings suggest that relative levels of market function in China and Europe were similar prior to the Industrial Revolution …. Higher efficiency in Europe is seen only in the nineteenth century when industrialization was already underway. Moreover …