This paper examines the progress of state-owned enterprise (SOE) reform in the People's Republic of China. After …

The purpose of this paper is to compare the cost efficiency of private and public property insurance providers in …

We analyze the extent of the integrated control of the state over privatized firms during the post-privatization decade … bureaucracy are the most likely reasons behind our findings. -- state ownership ; control ; corporate performance ; privatization …

evidence of improved financial performance or cost efficiency despite stronger focus on profits. Costs have on the other hand …/or competitive tendering and more commercial objectives. The consequences for allocative efficiency are however ambiguous, because of …

productivity, and employ less workers than the public firm. Allocative efficiency therefore increases. Nevertheless, prices of the …

potential concerns on China's state-backed OFDI and its implication on long-term sustainability. -- outward foreign direct …

tax reforms in China to shed light on the differential impact of taxation on firms under different ownership regimes …

Subordination of business to political influence has remains pervasive in China. We construct a Schumpeterian …, and total factor productivity (TFP) using firm-level data for China between 1998 and 2007. We find, consistent with the …

This paper examines the integration of Chinese Communist Party membership and private entrepreneurship in China after … entrepreneurs. Using six waves of a nationwide survey of privately owned enterprises in China from 1997 to 2008, we find that the …

infracting upon productive efficiency. The mechanism employs a contest creating incentives among participating nations to …