Many studies of regional disparity in China have focused on the preferential policies received by the coastal provinces …

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

-Fraumeni human capital measurement framework and modify it to estimate provincial level human capital in China. We produce a …

This paper studies the economic consequences of the West's foray into China after the Opium War (1839-42), when Western … nature of China's capital markets. Whereas before the Opium War, coastal cities were of relatively minor importance, the … treaty port system of the West transformed China into an economy focused on coastal areas and on international trade that …

in China. A short-lived alliance between the U.S.S.R. and China led to the construction of 150 "Million-Rouble plants" in …

China's hybrid economy blends state planning with market mechanisms, using annual economic targets to guide development …

We analyze how China's emergence as a destination for foreign direct investment is affecting the ability of other … countries to attract FDI. We do so using an approach that accounts for the endogeneity of China's FDI. The impact turns out to … vary by region. China's rapid growth and attractions as a destination for FDI also encourages FDI flows to other Asian …

In this paper, we adopt a cross-country perspective to examine the evolution of capital flows into China, both in terms … of volumes and composition. China's inflows have generally been dominated by foreign direct investment (FDI), a pattern … globalization. We provide a detailed documentation of the evolution of China's capital controls, a proximate determinant of the …

data and macroeconomic covariates, we find positive association of Chinese trade and financial flows with China's outward … strengthened by the provision of RMB swap-line agreements with China's trading partners. The evidences support the conjecture that …