The Chinese private maritime trade and global integration -- Reconsidering overseas trade : the Chinese intellectual response to the emerging global economy -- The northeast Asian trade network, the Manchu, pro-commerce tradition, and the 1684 open-door trade policy -- Enriching the state by...

The extant literature offers extensive support for the significant role played by institutions in financial markets, but implicit regulation and monitoring have yet to be examined. This study fills this void in the literature by employing unique Chinese datasets to explore the implicit...

The Chinese version of this paper can be found at http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=1960697.This paper researches the consumers' behavior theory and the demand definition of mainstream economics and finds that these definitions are different and in contradiction. Therefore, this paper proposes the...

This paper points out that consumption preference and pure subjective preference are not the same concept. The price system of commodity gives the social utility value of commodity and consumers only have two options for this utility value: accept or not accept. Consumption behavior is the...