This paper studies the causes and consequences of political centralization and fragmentation in China and Europe. We … argue that the severe and unidirectional threat of external invasion fostered political centralization in China while Europe … the frequency of nomadic attacks and the number of regimes in China. Our model allows us to explore the economic …

analyses which include a focus on China, Japan, Brazil, and South Africa, this paper not only highlights why there is need for … particular, the Basel III leverage ratios in jurisdictions such as China. Ultimately the paper also aims to investigate whether …

The extent to which China's family planning policy has driven its fertility transition over the past decades is … China's family planning policy and accordingly, proposes a new policy measure that integrates the policy variations more … completely, heterogeneously, and exogenously by using the cross-sectional data of the China Health and Nutrition Survey. The new …

results from the relevant literature and promote discussion on how financial and economic developments in China in recent …

such reforms in practice is not completely understood. This paper develops a simple model of the political economy of trade …-financial liberalization that offers insights into this phenomenon. When applied to China, it not only facilitates a better understanding of … its approach to financial integration in the global economy and why its relatively fragile state-bank dominated financial …

In 2009 the Treaty of Lisbon expanded the competences of the EU creating a Common Investment Policy. China has been … like to investigate the impact of changing EU-China investment relationship on European firms' behaviour. After an abstract … of theoretical contribution on BIT effects, a model of motivations of European inward investments in China will be …

rate targets, and costly sterilization of foreign capital inflows. China’s combination of capital controls and exchange …

This paper presents empirical evidence on asset market linkages between China and Asia and how these linkages have … liberalization of equity markets relative to bond markets in China, as well as increasing business and trade linkages in the region …. We also find that the strength of the correlation of equity prices changes between China and other Asia countries …

Despite the recent rapid development and greater openness of China’s economy, FDI flows between China and … technologically advanced countries are relatively small in both directions. We assess global capital flows in light of China’s quid … model to data. We also find large welfare gains for China—and welfare losses for its FDI partners—from quid pro quo. …