This paper presents a synopsis of recent NBER studies of the history of corporate governance in Canada, China, France …

This paper analyzes China's experience under U.S. apparel and textile quotas. It makes use of a unique new database … (1974 to 1995) and subsequent Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (1995 to 2005). We find that China was relatively more … constrained under these regimes than other countries and that, as quotas were lifted, China's exports grew disproportionately …

establishments to quantify the potential extent of misallocation in China and India compared to the U.S. Compared to the U.S., we … measure sizable gaps in marginal products of labor and capital across plants within narrowly-defined industries in China and ….S., we calculate manufacturing TFP gains of 30-50% in China and 40-60% in India …

market countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China), adding constraints that reflect a central bank%u2019s desire to hold a …

that the only industries in which listed companies in China display strong performance are public utilities, transportation …

China is planning to implement the largest CO₂ emissions trading system in the world. To reduce emissions … matching analytically and numerically solved models to assess the cost-effectiveness and distributional impacts of China …

development zones on firm level TFP in China. The difference-in-difference estimator shows that on average, loss of development … three major seaports in China, closure of zones reduced firm-level TFP by 9.62%, whereas closure of zones farther away did … locational heterogeneity. We conclude that China's strategy of using development zones as a place-based policy to encourage …

Following the introduction of the one-child policy in China, the capital-labor (K/L) ratio of China increased relative … to that of India, and, simultaneously, FDI inflows relative to GDP for China versus India declined. These observations … inherited from the previous generation. The resulting increase in China's (domestic K)/L thus ‘crowds out' the need for FDI in …