This paper is a comment on "Incentives and Outcomes: China's Environmental Policy" by Jing Wu, Yongheng Deng, Jun Huang, Randall Morck, and Bernard Yeung which can be found at: "http://ssrn.com/abstract=2399048" http://ssrn.com/abstract=2399048

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Most of the economic analyses of the overseas Chinese network focus on trade and investment flows at the country level. In this paper, we analyze the effects of the ethnic Chinese network at the firm level. Contrary to the conventional wisdom, we find that ethnic Chinese FDI firms in China in...