Many developing economies have joined or applied to join the WTO as part of their process of transformation to market-oriented economies. Accession to the WTO involves provisions to liberalize capital markets and to significantly reduce domestic industrial subsidies to the, usually large,...

In December 2001 China became a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO). By signing the accession protocol China not only agreed to reform its trade policy but it also accepted regulations that imply reductions on government subsidies to the state-owned sector. In this paper we claim that...

China's WTO accession has major implications on China's massive state-owned enterprise (SOE) sectors. In China, SOEs as a whole generate substantial losses and absorb majority of financial resources, creating increasing risks for financial crisis. This paper argues that China's WTO agreement has...