, and total factor productivity (TFP) using firm-level data for China between 1998 and 2007. We find, consistent with the …Subordination of business to political influence has remains pervasive in China. We construct a Schumpeterian … model predicts the impact of different patterns of state ownership and/or political connectedness on firm productivity …

U.S. state-level banking deregulation during the 1980’s mitigated the impact of the China trade shock (CTS) on local … integration on demand for housing and on housing prices: faced with an adverse shock to their region’s terms-of-trade (i.e. the …

We examine the effect of a large-scale administrative reorganization in China, where counties are annexed into cities …

The large regional variation in minimum wage levels in the period 2002-08 in China implies that Chinese manufacturing … factor productivity growth-particularly among the less productive firms under private Chinese or foreign ownership, but not …

that started in 2008, as our shock and then analyze how the NUTS II EU regions differ in their resilience to the crisis in …

of key macroeconomic variables to a monetary policy shock. We propose a datadriven approach that splits our panel of … countries into two disjoint groups according to the impact of the monetary policy shock on real house prices. Our results show …