privileges in China. By exploiting a unique, newly digitized firm-employee-level dataset from Shanghai in 1872-1941, we show that … exploring a historical precedent: China's trademark law of 1923---an unanticipated and disapproved response to end foreign …

decline below their pre-split levels. Using account level data from the Shanghai Stock Exchange, we find that small retail …

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

We assemble new data on the British and French concessions in Shanghai between 1845 and 1936 to assess the legal …

The China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone (SPFTZ) founded one year ago is a trial for China's new round of reform and … also make a preliminary assessment of the SPFTZ's initial impacts, especially of its impact on China's capital account … replicated in China will give rise to a more balanced Chinese economy in the following decade …

In this paper we present evidence as to the effects of the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone (SPFTZ) on China … and capital account liberalization into China's macro policy mix. We employ three methods to test the SPFTZ's impact on … causalities among China's money supply and the foreign interest rates. All these tests give consistent results suggesting that the …

, Shanghai already accounted for more than half of China's foreign trade. In tracking the levels and growth rates of the city …In this paper, we provide aggregate trends in China's trade performance from the 1840s to the present. Based on … historical benchmarks, we argue that China's recent gains are not exclusively due to the reforms since 1978. Rather, foreign …