China has accelerated and deepened bank reform since it joined the WTO in 2001. Employing a stochastic distance … governance changes on bank efficiency in China for the period 1995-2005. Our results show that bank efficiency has been improved … foreign competition is beneficial to China's on-going bank reform, and going-public is just a means to allow effective foreign …

rates and house prices. Some Chinese banks, especially the Bank of China, have been exposed to the US mortgage … replicated in China. This paper shows that there are some significant differences between China and the West, especially the US … and the UK. Compared with the US and other western industrialized economies, the booming house market in China has been …

China is now the world's second largest economy, and it is expected to overtake the United States to become the largest … by 2020. What are the implications for the global environment and climate change if China surpasses the United States …? There are major concerns with China's rapid rise because its economic and industrial structure is increasingly dependent on …

As China has rapidly emerged as one of the world’s largest investors abroad, there has been a hectic debate in the … whether this is the case. The study uses a panel dataset covering 155 countries, including 33 in the OECD, where China had … invested during 2003-09. This is by far the most comprehensive dataset of China’s outward foreign direct investment (OFDI). A …