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Omnia Juncta in Uno : Foreign Powers and Trademark Protection in Shanghai's Concession Era
Alfaro, Laura; Bao, Ge; Chen, Maggie Xiaoyang; Hong, Junjie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938690
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What Gets Measured Gets Managed : Investment and the Cost of Capital
He, Zhiguo; Liao, Guanmin; Wang, Baolian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
evidence that incentive schemes affect real investment and sheds new light on challenges faced by economic reforms in China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938744
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How Distortive are Turnover Taxes? Evidence from Replacing Turnover Tax with VAT
Xing, Jing; Bilicka, Katarzyna A.; Hou, Xipei - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
replaced turnover taxes with value-added taxes for some service industries in China, while the taxation of manufacturing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012814425
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Can a Tiger Change Its Stripes? Reform of Chinese State-Owned Enterprises in the Penumbra of the State
Harrison, Ann - 2019
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479431
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Growing Like China : Firm Performance and Global Production Line Position
Chor, Davin - 2020
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481098
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Improving Management through Worker Evaluations : Evidence from Auto Manufacturing
Cai, Jing - 2020
Using a randomized experiment with an automobile manufacturing firm in China, we measure the effects of letting workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481228
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Anxiety or Pain? The Impact of Tariffs and Uncertainty on Chinese Firms in the Trade War
Benguria, Felipe - 2020
The unexpected outbreak of the U.S.-China trade war led to dramatic increases in the import and export tariffs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482140
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Industrial Clusters, Networks and Resilience to the Covid-19 Shock in China
Dai, Ruochen - 2020
We examine how exposure of Chinese firms to the Covid-19 shock varied with a cluster index (measuring spatial agglomeration of firms in related industries) at the county level. Two data sources are used: entry flows of newly registered firms in the entire country, and an entrepreneur survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482220
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Adjustment of State Owned and Foreign-Funded Enterprises in China to Economic Reforms,1980s-2007 : a logistic smooth transition regression (LSTR) approach
Aizenman, Joshua - 2009
added production function of the State Owned (SOE) and Foreign-Funded Enterprises (FFE) in China, 1980s-2007. The transition … associated with the economic reforms in China is estimated applying a curvilinear logistic function, where the speed and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463377
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China's Exporters and Importers : Firms, Products and Trade Partners
Manova, Kalina - 2009
This paper uses newly available data on Chinese trade flows to establish novel and confirm existing stylized facts about firm heterogeneity in trade. First, the bulk of exports and imports are captured by a few multi-product firms that transact with a large number of countries. Second, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463400