High-speed rail (HSR) has led to a transportation revolution in China. This paper uses county-level panel data of China's Yangtze River region to investigate the effect of connecting to an HSR line on local economy. To address the issue of endogenous HSR route placement, we employ a...

The diffusion and adoption of modern information technology provide new chance for China to close urban-rural income gap. This paper uses China's provincial panel data from 2002 to 2013 to investigate the effect of computer penetration on rural residents' income. A public program aiming to...

To improve the tourism quality of tourist attractions, China National Tourism Administration provide quality accreditations to them, which is also used by tourist attractions to signal their quality and to attract tourists. However, how such accreditation influences regional tourism economy...

A failure of credit evaluation results in increasing default risks in the online P2P lending market. Online P2P lending platforms use both forward-looking and backward-looking credit evaluation mechanisms to assess the credit levels of borrowers. The forward-looking credit evaluation mechanism...

Urban Bias has long been Chinese government's dominant policies during economic development process. The government's behaviors come into the core to understand urban bias under China's government dominated economic development pattern. This paper tries to endogenize urban bias policies and...