In spite of high trade openness, existing empirical work, using daily data, has not found any evidence of international financial integration of China. In this paper we examine to what extent the Chinese A-share market, de jure protected from foreign influences by capital controls, is actually...

Chapter 1: Demystifying China’s Stock Market: The Hidden Logic behind the Puzzles -- Chapter 2: What Does History Tell Us? The Roots of China’s Modern Stock Market -- Chapter 3: A Government-Dominated Financial System -- Chapter 4: A Chinese style speculative market -- Chapter 5: The...