a country. I collect close to 40,000 articles from Chinese newspapers about officials caught during Xi Jinping's anti-corruption … newspapers underreport corruption scandals involving high-level officials from their own province compared to officials from … well connected. When newspapers do report high-level corruption at home, they deemphasise these stories, by making them …

directives, this paper examines how media coverage is distorted by censorship and corruption to the benefit of China's entrenched …Pervasive media censorship in China is often seen as a strictly political issue. Although in recent years reporters …

that firms linked to members of China's supreme political elites — the Politburo — obtained a price discount ranging from … promoted to positions of national leadership. To curb corruption, President Xi Jinping stepped up investigations and … reduction in corruption of between 50.1% and 43.6% in the provinces either targeted by the central inspection teams or whose …

This paper documents the clientelism in anti-corruption investigations across the interpolitician network in the … context of China. Patronage connections to highly ranked politicians (i.e., Politburo of the Communist Party of China) make … paper contributes to the on-going debate on the motivations of the incumbent government in anti-corruption campaigns …

Using transactions conducted by publicly listed firms in China’s primary land market during 2000-2012 as a case study …, we confirm that political connections are essentially corruption. By constructing unique measures to partial out the key … seller, and during unannounced anti-corruption audit campaigns …

macro-level and institutional data and applying the GMM estimation method, the study finds that corruption (a proxy of the … debate regarding the political extraction-cash holdings relationship by examining a context under which corruption is likely …

corruption, may affect the access to credit for micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs). Using a sample of 68 …-2014, we investigate whether the level of corruption affects their demand for bank loans. Overall, we find that the degree of … corruption seems to play a role in the applications for bank loans when small firms are under investigation. Interestingly …

This paper provides evidence on how executive compensation relates to firm performance in listed firms in China. Using … comprehensive financial and accounting data on China's listed firms from 1998 to 2002, augmented by unique data on executive … cash compensation (salary and bonus) for top executives with respect to shareholder value in China. In addition, sales …

This book is based on an empirical study of China’s leading resources and metals companies and seeks to examine the … comparable foreign companies. The Chinese companies selected for this study included: Sinopec, PetroChina, China National … Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) and the metals companies Aluminium Corporation of China (Chalco) and Baosteel. Comparisons …