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 …

initial export episodes in response to reform. These results suggest that the expansion of multinational activity more than …

, however, may be affected by relationships between auditor and target. We study whether provincial chief auditors in China show …

second from China. In each case, we find that women are far less likely to be investigated for corruption than men. In our … enforcement authorities; in China, female prefectural leaders are as much as 75 percent less likely to be arrested for corruption …

We document the market response to an unexpected announcement of proposed sales of government-owned shares in China. In …

that entrepots may facilitate tariff evasion. Using data on direct exports to mainland China and indirect exports via Hong … Kong SAR, we find that the indirect export rate rises with the Chinese tariff rate, even though there is no legal tax …

China. The novel feature of our approach is that at a very disaggregated level of individual products, we can measure … evasion relatively precisely, by comparing the values that China reports as imports from Hong Kong, with what Hong Kong … reports as exports to China. We can match up this evasion gap' with the tariff (and VAT tax) schedule at the product level …