This paper adds to the literature on wealth effects on consumption by disentangling house price effects on consumption … for mainland China. In a stochastic modelling framework, the riskiness, rate of increase and persistence of house price … movements have different implications for the consumption/housing ratio. We exploit the geographical variation in property …

In recent years China has experienced two forms of extreme macroeconomic imbalance: an expenditure imbalance in the … sense of very high investment and very low consumption, giving rise to rapid capital accumulation; and an imbalance between …. Both imbalances imply a low rate of time discount by both government and society: consumption in the present is forgone in …

effectiveness of whistleblower laws and their awareness, this study creates a unique internet-based measure of awareness about …. Internet awareness of whistleblower laws appears to be more effective at exposing corruption than the quantity and quality of …

There have been profound changes in both political and economic institutions in China over the last twenty years …

two emerging stock markets - Russia and China, because of their unique characteristics and performance in the past years …

We present a new composite leading indicator of economic activity in mainland China, es-timated using a dynamic factor …

features of China's extensive processing trade cause both the identification of imported intermediate goods, and their … intermediate goods imported into China. Vertical specialization is then estimated using two methods. The first method uses the … strong evidence of an Asian network of intermediate suppliers to China, and the two methods provide a range of estimates for …

stability in mainland China. We examine whether excess money relative to rulebased values provides information that improves the …

In January 2008, China adopted a new labour contract law. This new law represents the most significant reform to the … legislation on employment relations in mainland China in more than a decade. The paper provides a theoretical framework on the …