Global value chains have fundamentally transformed international trade and development in recent decades. We use … matched firm-level customs and manufacturing survey data, together with Input-Output tables for China, to examine how Chinese … firms position themselves in global production lines and how this evolves with productivity and performance over the firm …

This article investigates whether China's foreign aid is particularly prone to political capture by political leaders … results show that current political leaders’ birth regions receive substantially larger financial ows from China than other …

democracy. We also find that individuals who have a positive attitude towards China are more likely to value democracy. In …

Mainstream economic research regards private debt as a determinant of GDP growth in the longrun. Levine (2005) surveys … focus from the long to the short-run and study whether private debt has a significant impact on GDP growth in the short …