The recent institutional reforms in China provide new settings to explore various important topics in finance. Three major reforms are namely the Anti-Corruption Campaign, Mass Entrepreneurship and Innovation and the Belt and Road initiative (also known as the land and maritime Silk Road...

Eight years ago, The European Journal of Finance (EJF) published the first special issue on the Chinese Capital Markets. This was at a time when Chinese topics were not widely accepted by internationally excellent finance journals. Since then, The European Journal of Finance had published four...

We study the impact of the TseTse fly—which is unique to Africa and transmits an epidemic disease harmful to humans and lethal to livestock—on modern financial development in Africa. Exploiting newly georeferenced firm data across the world, we discover that firms in regions that met the...