The centre of global economic activity is shifting rapidly towards Asia, driven by a combination of the economic dynamism of China, India and other middle-income Asian countries, and sluggish growth in the OECD economies. The rapid growth and rising global prominence has raised a range of major...

Introduction : China, the EU, the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment, and International Investment Dispute Settlement -- Analyzing the State-to-State Dispute Settlement System in the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment -- Analyzing the mechanism to address differences...

This article explores the dynamics of market selection by investigating of the relationships linking productivity, profitability, investment and growth, based on China's manufacturing firm-level dataset over the period 1998 - 2007. First, we find that productivity variations, rather than...

Measures of society's stock of fixed assets are necessary for describing production technology, evaluating capital-output ratios and analysing multifactor productivity. While recognizing the inherent difficulty of compiling capital stock estimates for an economy in which prices have long...