Using comprehensive loan-level data in China, we investigate how the deregulation on bank entry barriers alters local … deregulation are adversely mitigated by entrant banks' preferences for lending to SOEs over more productive private firms. This …

Using comprehensive loan-level data in China, we investigate how the deregulation on bank entry barriers alters local … deregulation are adversely mitigated by entrant banks’ preferences for lending to SOEs over more productive private firms. This …

Before and after its accession to the WTO in 2001, China has undergone a far-reaching investment liberalisation. As … positively to China's "science and technology take-off". …

This article explores China's commitments to liberalising legal services under the recently concluded China – Australia … Free Trade Agreement (ChAFTA). While China's ChAFTA commitments extend beyond its commitments on legal services under the … World Trade Organisation and under most of China's other FTAs, we argue that the degree of liberalisation under the ChAFTA …

Corporate mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are subject to skewed logic due to excessive government regulation. China is … against China's institutional background and the M&A events of listed companies from 2012 to 2019. The MANL significantly …