China’s policy-makers argued that WTO accession and the accompanying trade liberalization would have a beneficial … impact on the domestic economy. China’s import tariffs differed tremendously across industry in the earlier years, but …

We present the first comprehensive set of firm-level total factor productivity (TFP) estimates for China …'s manufacturing sector that spans China's entry into the WTO. For our preferred estimate, which adjusts for a number of potential …

financial distortions on FDI inflows in China's labor-intensive industries. Following Whited and Wu (2006), we estimate the … political pecking order hypothesis that states that there is a severe lending bias in China's financial system against private …

firms in China over 2004-2007, we find that foreign affiliates from countries with a more gender-equal culture tend to … raises China's aggregate total factor productivity by 5%, of which spillovers from multinationals account for 19%. …