China's financial system has been integral to its spectacular economic growth over the past 40 years. We review the … recent literature on China's financial system and its connections to the Chinese economy based on the categories of Aggregate … China's financial system. While early work on China's financial system emphasizes the state-owned enterprise (SOE) reform …

This paper studies the connection between share pledging and entrepreneurial activities in China, challenging the …

We created experimental variation across local markets in China in the share of firms having access to a new loan …

We use firm-level data to identify financial frictions in China and explore the extent to which they can explain firms …

sectoral pattern of multinational activity. Using detailed customs data from China, we show that foreign affiliates and joint …

products to China. We find causal evidence that offshoring impacts both the level and nature of innovation. In the technologies … directly related to product categories that could be offshored more easily after the policy shock, overall innovation levels … decline and innovative effort shifts away from product innovation and towards process innovation. However, we also find …

various dimensions of upgrading --- learning, quality upgrading, technology adoption, and product innovation. The second part …

This paper examines whether there are complementarities between investments in ICT, R&D and organizational innovation … return of 9.7%, followed by 6% to 7% on organizational innovation and a modest 1.4% to 1.8% on R&D in services and …

product and process innovation (simultaneously adopting new machines and organizational practices) and adopt foreign … technologies, leading to higher productivity. We propose a model of endogenous selection and innovation in heterogeneous firms that … jointly explains the observed selection process and the innovation decisions. Further, we show in the data that innovation on …