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Concerns about the quality of China's official GDP statistics have been a perennial question in understanding its economic dynamics. We use data on satellite-recorded nighttime lights as an independent benchmark for comparing various published indicators of the state of the Chinese economy....
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Reputation is critical to foster trust in online marketplaces, yet leaving feedback is a public good that can be under-provided unless buyers are rewarded for it. Signaling theory implies that only high quality sellers would reward buyers for truthful feedback. We explore this scope for...
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savings rate, banking system, financial markets, financial regulations, corporate governance, and public finances; and …
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efficiency units enters the production technology, and investment in water management assets raises efficiency of water use. Our … accounting approach to investigate both the contribution played in the past by water availability in constraining China's growth … performance, and what would be involved in the future. We use a modified version of Solow growth accounting in which water in …
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obtain all the financing necessary to carry out their desired investment programs. However, we also find no collateral … value on firm investment. Working with unique data on land values in 35 major Chinese markets and a panel of firms outside … the real estate industry, we estimate investment equations that yield no evidence of a collateral channel effect. One …
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We develop a methodology to disentangle sources of capital ‘misallocation', i.e. dispersion in value-added/capital. It measures the contributions of technological/informational frictions and a rich class of firm-specific factors. An application to Chinese manufacturing firms reveals that...
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remain so for many years. The efficiency of its financial system in allocating capital to investment will be important to … last two decades is highly correlated with that of corporate investment efficiency. China's stock market appears to be … access it. Yet this high alpha amounts to an inflated cost of equity capital, constraining the investment of China's smaller …
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