Fang, Hanming; Li, Ming - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We empirically test whether the Department of Justice (DOJ) engages in ethnic prejudice against Chinese in its … conduct Becker's outcome test for evidence of ethnic prejudice. We find that Chinese-named defendants were more likely to be … market reaction was much more muted to the news on the case filing date if the charged defendants are of Chinese descent. Our …