Since China joined the WTO in 2001, the pressure for bank reforms has mounted as China ought to fully open up its … foreign competition can solve China's banking problem remains to be tested. This paper aims to answer this question through … that ownership reform and foreign competition have forced the Chinese commercial banks to improve performance, as their …

find that import and domestic consumptions are complements in China, but substitutes in Japan and Korea. Different per … capita incomes and consumer behaviors between China and the other two countries are two possible reasons for different … relationships between import and domestic consumptions. The research findings have important implications on policies such as …

Since China joined the WTO in 2001, the pressure for bank reforms has mounted as China ought to fully open up its … foreign competition can solve China's banking problem remains to be tested. This paper aims to answer this question through … that ownership reform and foreign competition have forced the Chinese commercial banks to improve performance, as their …

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 …