How is the rise of platform capitalism reinventing the traditional regime of familial production, while at the same time being energized by it? How do the historically informed, lived experiences of rural e-commerce entrepreneurs/workers in China help reconceptualize digital labor and platform...

Purpose: “Interdisciplinarity” is a hot topic in science- and technology-policy. However, the concept of “Interdisciplinarity” is both abstract and complex, and therefore difficult to measure using a single indicator. A variety of measures for diversity and interdisciplinarity have been...

Purpose: We address the question of whether differences are statistically significant in the rankings of universities. We propose methods measuring the statistical significance among different universities and illustrate the results by empirical data.Design/methodology/approach: Based on...

We document a substantial dispersion of interest margins charged by commercial banks across Chinese provinces. As our empirical study provides evidence that resource costs are the primary drivers of Chinese bank interest margins, we build a parsimonious dynamic stochastic general equilibrium...

There is widespread concern that an international agreement on stringent climate policies will not be reached because it would imply too high costs for fast growing economies like China. To quantify these costs we develop a general equilibrium model with fully endogenous growth. The framework...

This paper examines the environmental effect of political connections at the individual level and the organizational level. We integrate political connections at both levels and construct a four-stage game theoretical framework to study the political interplay between an entrepreneur, a...

This paper discusses capital (dis)investments associated with climate regulations in green growth transitions. We first show an empirically confirmed stylized fact that carbon-intensive capital does not necessarily fall sharply with the stepping-of of clean capital investment. We then...

This paper presents a two-sector green endogenous growth model to explore a mechanism that explains why carbon-intensive capital is not necessarily shut down during transition to a green economy. Without accumulating clean capital to offset carbon emissions, a tightening of climate regulation...