Survey design -- Household demographics and work characteristics -- Non-financial assets -- Household financial assets -- Household debts -- Insurance and social welfare -- Expenditure and income -- Household wealth.

1. Basic Situation of Rural Household -- 2. Rural Household Employment -- 3. Rural Household Income -- 4. Expenditures of Rural Households -- 5. The Property of Rural Household -- 6. Current Development Status of Rural Financial Market -- 7. Formal Credit Demand and Availability of Rural...

In this study, we construct a set of monthly de jure indexes that measure the on-going changes in capital controls in 190 countries from 1999 to 2019. The information about policy changes on capital accounts is extracted from the International Monetary Fund’s Annual Report on Exchange...

This paper comprehensively examines how subjective well-being (SWB) is influenced by various aspects of housing — tenure, living conditions, and housing values — based on an individual panel from the China Household Finance Survey. We employ a two-way fixed effects model to reduce the...

This paper studies cartels' strategic behavior in delaying leniency applications, a take-up decision that has been ignored in the previous literature. Using European Commission decisions issued over a 16-year span, we show, contrary to common beliefs and the existing literature, that...

Colluding firms often exchange private information and make transfers within the cartels based on the information. Estimating the impact of such collusive practices'€" known as the 'lysine strategy profile (LSP)€'€" on cartel duration is difficult because of endogeneity and omitted...

Legal institutions play an important role in affecting delay in settlement. But little research has investigated the institutional causes of delay. The empirical literature is ambiguous regarding the impact of trial-court delay on settlement delay. I analyze the timing of bargaining and the...

Litigation seems to be a Pareto-ineffcient outcome of pretrial bargaining; however, this paper shows that litigation can be the outcome of rational behavior by a litigant and her attorney. If the attorney has more information than his client concerning the characteristics of the lawsuit, the...

There have long been claims that compensations for noneconomic damages are random because tort law does not provide clear guidance regarding these compensations. I investigate, in both settled and tried medical malpractice cases, whether noneconomic damage payments are arbitrary and what...