may affect policy learning and policy outcomes. We aim to describe and understand China's policy experimentation since … conducted in China over the past four decades. We find three main results. First, more than 80% of the experiments exhibit … national policies originating from the experimentation. Taken together, these results suggest that while China's bureaucratic …

This paper studies the employment and productivity implications of new labor regulations in China. These new …

China eventually becomes the world's saver and, thereby, the developed world's savoir with respect to its long …In previous studies that excluded China we predicted that tax hikes needed to pay benefits along the developed world …'s demographic transition would lead to capital shortage, reducing real wages per unit of human capital. Adding China to the model …

-development institutions, how should one understand why Imperial China, with weaker rule of law and property rights, gave the commoners more … differences in the power structure of society: (1) the Ruler enjoyed weaker absolute power in Europe; (2) the People were more on … par with the Elites in China in terms of power and rights. Based on these narratives, we build a game-theoretical model …

Weak institutions ought to deter foreign direction investment (FDI), and mass media stories highlight China …'s institutional deficiencies, yet China is now one of the world's largest FDI destinations. This incongruity characterizes China …'s paradoxical growth. Cross-country regressions show that China's FDI inflow is not exceptionally large, given the quality of its …

research on China. Second, we document, through various empirical methods, the robust findings about striking patterns of trend … offers a constructive framework for studying China's modern macroeconomy …

China presents several macroeconomic patterns that appear inconsistent with standard stylized facts about economic …

cross-provincial variation in institutional quality in China, and export data that distinguishes between foreign and …