With panel data for 28 Chinese provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities) during 1985-2002, this paper assesses the effect of banking structure on economic growth. Banking structure is defined as the relative importance of banks of different size in the banking sector. The market share of...

While China has seen rapid economic growth over the last three decades, many studies document a negative correlation between traditional measurements of banking development and economic growth in China. Among many efforts to explain the low efficiency of Chinese banking sector, two arguments...

This paper examines how technology affects firm size. A vertical integration perspective is taken because the size of a firm tends to be large when a longer chain of production processes are organized within the border of the firm. By applying the Property Rights Theory Approach, the paper...

This Study examines the impact of local bank structures on the expansion of foreign banks by combining data from China and theory analysis of domestic and foreign bank competition. Results show that when foreign banks face banking structures with a higher proportion of banks with low funding...

The article examines the reform of collective copyright licensing in China. An overview of the copyright reform in the country in which the employment of an extended collective license system was affirmed by Chinese legislature. Also discussed are the transparent governance and dispute...