This book aims to explain the secret to China’s rapid growth over the last 40 years from the viewpoint of a firsthand … Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the State Information Center, and the Policy Research Office of the State … 2013, Zheng Xinli appeared on the list of China’s Top Ten Economists. With the addition of several up-to-date articles …

exploring a historical precedent: China's trademark law of 1923---an unanticipated and disapproved response to end foreign … privileges in China. By exploiting a unique, newly digitized firm-employee-level dataset from Shanghai in 1872-1941, we show that …

evidence that incentive schemes affect real investment and sheds new light on challenges faced by economic reforms in China …

replaced turnover taxes with value-added taxes for some service industries in China, while the taxation of manufacturing …

The majority of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in China were privatized through ownership reforms over the last two … decades. Using a comprehensive dataset of all medium and large enterprises in China between 1998 and 2013, we show that …

matched firm-level customs and manufacturing survey data, together with Input-Output tables for China, to examine how Chinese … production stages conducted in China over the 1992-2014 period, both in the aggregate and within firms over time. Firms span more …

Using a randomized experiment with an automobile manufacturing firm in China, we measure the effects of letting workers …

The unexpected outbreak of the U.S.-China trade war led to dramatic increases in the import and export tariffs …

contributions collected in this book assess major M&A deals in the largest emerging capital markets (Brazil, Russia, India, China …