This paper studies insider privatization in rural China and provides an explanation of why some firms have performed … well after privatization but others have not. We show theoretically that the underperformance of insider-privatized firms … could be due to the manager-cum-owner's lack of incentives after privatization. A screening theory predicts that the buyout …

This article examines the impacts of China`s accession to the World Trade Organization (wto) on prices in its … its accession to the wto. These new measures account for differences in commodity quality within China and between China … agricultural sector. The analysis uses a new methodology to estimate nominal protection rates in China`s agricultural sector before …

The overall goal of our paper is to understand how WTO will affect the agriculture sector in China. To accomplish this … at a time immediately prior to the nation's accession to WTO. Second, we seek to assess how well integrated China … impacts, researchers will be better able to begin working on understanding how the policies that WTO will impose on China will …

This article examines the impacts of China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) on prices in its … its accession to the WTO. These new measures account for differences in commodity quality within China and between China … agricultural sector. The analysis uses a new methodology to estimate nominal protection rates in China's agricultural sector before …