contract enforcement. Foreign-owned firms benefit more from the maintenance of physical safety and ease in obtaining …

business environment indicators on firm performances depend on measures of contract enforcement. Foreign-owned firms benefit …

, likely the engine for innovation in the coming years in China, are especially financially constrained, due perhaps to the …-the-big-and-letting-go-the-small' privatization program in China. Our empirical results suggest that government connections play an important role in explaining … Chinese firms' financing conditions, and provide further evidence on the nature of the misallocation of credit by China …