In a rare example of an explicit national goal for income distribution besides reducing poverty, China's leadership has … the potential trade-offs, the paper asks whether China's experience indicates that income-polarization was a by-product of … polarizing in China …

sides. The paper estimates how much of China's poverty rate around 1980--near the outset of Deng Xiaoping's pro … China's poverty in 1980 is attributed to the impact of the Maoist path since 1950. Further checks and tests suggest that (if … anything) this is likely to be an underestimate. It took 10-20 years for China's post-reform economy to make up the lost ground …

The majority of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in China were privatized through ownership reforms over the last two … decades. Using a comprehensive dataset of all medium and large enterprises in China between 1998 and 2013, we show that …

We document that following a turnover of the Party Secretary or mayor of a city in China, firms (especially private …

The unexpected outbreak of the U.S.-China trade war led to dramatic increases in the import and export tariffs …

existing studies, we analyze the sources and causes of China's high and rising saving rates in the government, corporate, and … household sectors. Although the causes of China's high saving are complex, we suggest that the evolving economic, demographic …

) firm-specific factors. Applying this method to manufacturing firms in China reveals a modest role for adjustment costs and … account for a limited fraction of observed misallocation in China, but a potentially large share for US firms …

Corruption is a widespread phenomenon in many developing and transitional economies. China is a country in profile both … in the prevalence of corruption, and in its attempts to root out corruption. The recent anti-corruption campaign in China … on the measurements that highlight the city-level heterogeneity of corruption in China, and present simple frameworks to …