This research explores how salt monopoly, a widespread but costly institution in the pre-modern world, induced mafia …

The People's Republic of China officially became a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) on 10 December 2001 …. Its major commitments under the Protocol on Accession are trade-related. To meet them, systemic reforms in the areas of … transparency, uniform application of laws and substantial changes to trade-related laws and regulations that are inconsistent with …

After more than a decade of preparation, China finally passed the Anti-Monopoly Law (AML) on August 30, 2007. This … paper examines the debate over whether or not administrative monopoly should be included in the ambit of the AML, which took … place throughout the drafting process of this new law. Administrative monopoly refers to the abusive use of administrative …

that monopoly control in the Chinese political economy is not simply an economic phenomenon but also a phenomenon deeply … monopoly control in the Chinese system …