In major legal orders such as UK, the U.S., Germany, and France, bribers and recipients face equally severe criminal sanctions. In contrast, countries like China, Russia, and Japan treat the briber more mildly. Given these differences between symmetric and asymmetric punishment regimes for...

The book is a timely call for a more cautious and restrictive use of Death Penalty in China. But what matters most at the moment, it seems, is not to educate the general public, or to tighten the procedural rules, but to challenge the mentality of the Party/state: excessive use of Death Penalty...

In this book, Bakken puts together a collection of interesting essays on crime, policing and punishment in China, an area which has often been covered more by myth and rhetoric than rational discussion. A significant contribution of the book is its effort to de-mystify the Chinese criminal...

可以發現，中國版本的這篇文章："ssrn.com/abstract=2305720" ssrn.com/abstract=2305720This paper presents a general introduction to the law of insider trading in the People's Republic of China, and the reality of enforcement against insider trading in China's domestic capital...

Although it is widely recognized that an offender's perceptions of the legitimacy of legal sanctions are directly related to his or her subsequent behavioural adjustment, few studies examine the factors that affect such perceptions. The present study addresses this issue by examining a unique...

This paper estimates the effects of the send-down movement during the Cultural Revolution---when about 16 million urban youth were mandated to resettle in the countryside---on rural education. Using a county-level dataset compiled from local gazetteers and population censuses, we show that...

The falling female labor force participation rate in China has raised the attention oflabor economists and policymakers. In light of this, this paper documents the changesin labor force participation of mothers relative to fathers around first births (referred to asthe "child penalty" in the...