to privatization, and liberal policies towards foreign banks’ involvement with the domestic institutions helped to build …

Better developed legal and political institutions result in greater availability of reliable firm-specific information …

Better developed legal and political institutions result in greater availability of reliable firm-specific information …

There have been profound changes in both political and economic institutions in China over the last twenty years …. Moreover, the pace of transition has led to variation across the country in the level of development. In this paper, we use … panel data for the Chinese provinces to study the role of legal institutions, financial deepening and political pluralism on …