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"We explore the impact of a tax reform in some provinces of China which eliminated the value-added tax on some … induce labor-saving growth. This experiment has since been extended to the rest of China"--National Bureau of Economic …
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China. It uses a data set that consists of detailed characteristics of 6407 urban households, a continuous measure of health …
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In China, local governments have actively contributed to the growth of new firms. In Russia, local governments have … question then is why this has not happened in China. We argue that the answer lies in the degree of political centralization … present in China, but not in Russia. Transition in China has taken place under the tight control of the communist party. As a …
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To date, China has maintained a variety of restrictions on its financial markets. In addition to imposing capital … foreign stock markets, and the amount they can sell. China is unique in that foreigners pay much less than domestic investors …
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We view the political process in China as trading off the social benefits of increased trade and foreign direct … of this model are estimated using province-level data on foreign direct investment and trade flows in China, over the … China may find it politically difficult to follow through with liberalizing its trade and investment regimes, such as under …
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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 …
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This paper studies the connection between share pledging and entrepreneurial activities in China, challenging the …
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evidence that incentive schemes affect real investment and sheds new light on challenges faced by economic reforms in China …
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Subsidies to consumers may cause firms to charge higher prices, which offsets consumer benefits from subsidies. We study a subsidy program design that mitigates such price increases by making products' eligibility for a subsidy dependent on firms' commitment to price ceilings. To quantify the...
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We explore the impact of wage offers on job applications, testing implications of the directed search model and trying to distinguish it from random search. We use a field experiment conducted on a Chinese job board, with real jobs for which we randomly varied the wage offers across three...
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