Using the annual survey on large and medium-sized industrial enterprises in People’s Republic of China (henceforth PRC) by the National Bureau of Statistics, this paper examines enterprise performance in north-east PRC. It shows clearly that the privatization of SOEs in the north-east region...

Using the annual survey on large and medium-sized industrial enterprises in People's Republic of China (henceforth PRC) by the National Bureau of Statistics, this paper examines enterprise performance in north-east PRC. It shows clearly that the privatization of SOEs in the north-east region...

This paper attacks the Meese-Rogoff (exchange rate disconnect) puzzle from a different perspective: out-of-sample interval forecasting. Most studies in the literature focus on point forecasts. In this paper, we apply Robust Semi-parametric (RS) interval forecasting to a group of Taylor rule...