Weak institutions ought to deter foreign direction investment (FDI), and mass media stories highlight China …'s institutional deficiencies, yet China is now one of the world's largest FDI destinations. This incongruity characterizes China …'s paradoxical growth. Cross-country regressions show that China's FDI inflow is not exceptionally large, given the quality of its …

Housing and land prices in China have experienced dramatic hikes over the past decade or two. Moreover, housing and …

(4)There are no official data on residential vacancy rates in China, but some researchers have reported very high …

reason for this stark difference appears to be that some of the most dominant firms in China are state-owned enterprises …

In generating fast economic growth, China is also generating growing concern about its environmental record. Using 2000 …

We provide the first multi-city, constant quality land price index for 35 major markets in China. While there is …We also investigate the quality of the two most prominent house price indexes in China, and conclude that a traditional … hedonic index more accurately reflects how house prices have changed over time in eight major markets in China. Repeat sales …

, China's stimulus boosted real GDP growth from an annualized 6.2% in the first quarter of 2009 trough to 11.9% in the first … speed and efficacy of China's stimulus derives from state control over its banking system and corporate sector. Beijing …, fueling a real estate bubble; and that China's seemingly highly effective macroeconomic stimulus package may well have induced …