Over the past two decades, China has been the worlds fastest-growing economy. My dissertation focuses on several important issues in Chinas recent development and reform:(1) Financial development and economic growth. It is widely recognized that financial sector reform is crucial to Chinas...

We argue that the extent to which a firm faces takeover threats affects its knowledge structure. In particular, takeover threats may lead to managers' reluctance to adopt a strategy toward firm-specific knowledge accumulation, because implementing this strategy requires them to acquire...