that the stringency of bank screening of borrowers in China increased with greater banking sector competition …We analyze the relationship between greater bank competition and the screening of potential borrowers. Using a large … sample of Chinese private firms and China's entry into the WTO as a natural experiment, we find the following. First, the …

We examine the impacts of China’s unconventional emission trading system (ETS), a rate-based tradable performance … standard (TPS), on firm competitiveness. Our analysis takes advantage of the quasi-natural experiment created by China …

With the trade conflict between the United States and China bringing China-US strategic competition into the open, the … European Union faces an urgent question: how to position itself in the competition. This paper reviews the impact of the US …-led trade war against China and its immediate consequences for China, the US and the EU. Although protectionism can never be …