The current Chinese development model is nearing its limits. The World Bank has cautioned that China could find itself … in a “middle-income trap”. China recognizes that it must dramatically increase its capacity for innovation to avoid this … trap. This chapter provides an introduction to the enormous complexities and challenges that China faces in transforming …

Using original survey data from China, we estimate a discrete duration model to study the reemployment of urban workers … who lost jobs during China's major restructuring of the state sector in the late 1990s. Using an exogenous measure of …

Despite an emerging literature on political determinants of economic performance in China, little is known about …

The aim of the paper is to investigate the development of China’s state-controlled firms in the consumer electronics … Chinese economy as a whole. This paper uses case studies to identify the specific characteristics of China’s firms that … different ways of development of China’s state-controlled firms with different competitive position. …

and unproductive activities. This paper provides empirical evidence by showing how China's recent anti-corruption campaign …

where growth is driven by the innovative activity of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship is risky and requires investments that … affect the steepness of the lifetime consumption profile. As a consequence, the occupational choice of entrepreneurship …