This paper develops an expectancy model for Chinese-American differences in conflict-avoiding, and tests this model using a scenario study with respondents from Taiwan and the US. Our results show that a higher Chinese tendency to avoid conflict is explained by higher Chinese expectations that...

How do firms' financial constraints, which restrict their borrowing, dynamically impact exports? This paper finds that after controlling for the endogeneity of financial constraints, constrained firms are less likely to export, and relaxing financial constraints leads to an increase in exports....

This paper investigates the effect of toxic-releasing facilities’ relocation on the distribution of pollution incidence across communities depending on their socio-economic characteristics. Applying synthetic control estimation to toxic emissions data of 12,823 facilities from 1990 to 2011, we...