Using data from a recent survey of bank and enterprise managers and government officials in southern China, we present …

principal targets of reforms, among SOEs, and better performing enterprises being more likely to be picked for privatization … better than those in which the majority of shares are owned privately. We find mixed evidence for the TVEs: privatization had …

of the label on China's market, CLASP further provided assistance to CNIS to collect data on both the efficiency … were required to display their declared level of efficiency on the label and report it to the China Energy Label Center …In the last five years, China's refrigerator market has grown rapidly, and now urban markets are showing signs of …

The minimum energy efficiency standards program for household appliances in China was initiated in 1989. Since 1996 … efficiency requirements for implementation within 6 months of a standard's approval. Since 2003, China has adopted a new approach … Section 1, Section 2 analyzes the distribution of the efficiency of refrigerators and air-conditioners in China based on data …

There is a continuing debate on whether or not ownership changes accompanying privatization of state-owned enterprises … of telecommunication firms around the world, 4 years before and 4 years after privatization, using two parallel measures … could corroborate stronger evidence for or against maintained hypothesis of performance improvements after privatization …