Purpose – This paper aims to answer the following questions concerning rural-to-urban labor migration in China: What is the impact of discrimination against non-Hukou in urban public service provision? Will such discrimination disappear in the future within the current policy-making framework?...

Platforms compete intensively to attract users. Monetary subsidies are commonly used to incentivize users’ adoption, but such subsidies are expensive. In this paper, we study the impacts of token incentives, an alternative incentive approach, in the competition of two decentralized exchange...

This study examined the influence of managerial ability on corporate innovation performance. Our findings suggest that higher levels of managerial ability significantly enhance an enterprise's innovation performance, while managerial risk taking has the potential to not only inhibit the...

Based on the matching data in the China Customs, Chinese industrial enterprises, and patent databases, this study uses the propensity score matching method (PSM) and the double difference model (DID) to study the impact of Internet use on enterprise innovation. The results show that Internet use...

In this paper we study, using a stylized analytical model, an entrepreneur's design of the optimal product menu for crowdfunding together with the optimal choice of the funding target. We find that in contrast to prior literature on crowdfunding, downward quality distortion of the low-quality...

To explain the relationship between income inequality and economic growth, we develop a computational model of endogenous growth by taking the effects of fixed government expenditure into account. With such a model, a non-linear relationship between level of income inequality and economic growth...

By employing a large dataset of nation-wide state-owned and non-state-owned manufacturing enterprises in the period 1998–2007, this paper analyzes the evolving pattern of the correlation and spread between wages and labor productivity in China's manufacturing sector and its influence factors....