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We study the consequences of month-end lending incentives for Chinese bank managers. Using data from two banks, one state-owned and the other partially privatized, we show a clear increase in lending in the final days of each month, a result of both more loan issuance and higher value per loan....
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, however, may be affected by relationships between auditor and target. We study whether provincial chief auditors in China show …
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second from China. In each case, we find that women are far less likely to be investigated for corruption than men. In our … enforcement authorities; in China, female prefectural leaders are as much as 75 percent less likely to be arrested for corruption …
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This paper examines the impact of a property rights reform in rural China that allowed farmers to lease out their land …
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We document the market response to an unexpected announcement of proposed sales of government-owned shares in China. In …
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This paper exploits two unique features of China's history to study the effects of access to internal migration …: reforms to the household registration (hukou) system, and historical migration flows. We show that temporary migration due to … volatility for rural households. Furthermore, household production shifts into high-risk, high-return activities …
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We study the relationship between the political connections of Chinese firms and workplace fatalities. In our preferred specification we find that the worker death rate for connected companies is two to three times that of unconnected firms (depending on the sample employed), a pattern that...
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We document evidence of corruption in Chinese state asset sales. These sales involved stakes in partially privatized firms, providing a benchmark - the price of publicly traded shares - to measure underpricing. Underpricing is correlated with deal attributes associated with misgovernance and...
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reaction to adverse shocks to Sino-Japanese relations in 2005 and 2010. Japanese companies with high China exposure suffer …
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We study favoritism via hometown ties, a common source of favor exchange in China, in fellow selection of the Chinese …
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