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 …

We argue that China, with its long history, a relatively stable political system, and multiple regime changes, provides …

this paper we examine the impact of China's opium legalization on the quantity and price of British opium exports from … India to China during the 19th century. We find little evidence that legalization increased exports or decreased price. Thus …, the evidence suggests China's opium prohibition had a minimal impact on opium consumption …

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

China's Cultural Revolution to understand how these beliefs can be affected, how they impact behavior, and how they are … transmitted across generations. During the Cultural Revolution, China's college admission system based on entrance exams was …

household choice of children's quantity versus quality. The setting is in Anhui Province, China over the 13th to 20th centuries …

affect how communities confronted two well-studied historical episodes from the early years of the People's Republic of China …