-- 3. Market Socialism or Market Leninism? The institutionalization of China’s Crony Capitalism -- Part II -- 4. The … Origins of China’s Comprador Capitalism -- 5. The Rise of China in a Semi-Peripheral Orbit -- 6. The new ‘Cold War’ and Xi …“This timely and highly original book mercilessly dissects the sources of China’s impending ‘imperial decline’. Its …

removing barriers to bank entry on bank competition and economic growth. As governments were not concerned about systemic … stability in this period, we are able to isolate the effects of bank competition from those of state implicit guarantees. We … states that retained state bank chartering policies. We argue that the fiercer bank competition following the introduction of …

inefficient bankruptcy procedures induce significant resource misallocation. A welcome deregulation of professional services is … sector regulators in network industries and the powers of the Competition Authority can still be enhanced, as the reform …