reaction to adverse shocks to Sino-Japanese relations in 2005 and 2010. Japanese companies with high China exposure suffer … relative declines during each event window; a symmetric effect is observed for Chinese companies with high Japanese exposure …. The effect on Japanese companies is more pronounced for those operating in industries dominated by Chinese state …

, however, may be affected by relationships between auditor and target. We study whether provincial chief auditors in China show …

second from China. In each case, we find that women are far less likely to be investigated for corruption than men. In our … enforcement authorities; in China, female prefectural leaders are as much as 75 percent less likely to be arrested for corruption …

We document the market response to an unexpected announcement of proposed sales of government-owned shares in China. In …

that entrepots may facilitate tariff evasion. Using data on direct exports to mainland China and indirect exports via Hong …

China. The novel feature of our approach is that at a very disaggregated level of individual products, we can measure … evasion relatively precisely, by comparing the values that China reports as imports from Hong Kong, with what Hong Kong … reports as exports to China. We can match up this evasion gap' with the tariff (and VAT tax) schedule at the product level …

We study favoritism via hometown ties, a common source of favor exchange in China, in fellow selection of the Chinese …