We examine the effect of a regulation in China that restricts perquisite consumption by managers of state-owned companies. We find that the regulation causes state-owned companies to issue more entrusted loans to other firms. Furthermore, entrusted loans issued by state-owned companies have...

This paper investigates the empirical validity of the claim that China employed a forward-looking monetary policy rule from 2001 to 2016. Survey expectations are used in conjunction with competing money supply and interest rate rules. The paper contributes to the literature by addressing the...

This study examines the time-varying effects of uncertainty shocks on the broadbased movement of commodity returns since the early 1990s. We employ a vector autoregression (VAR) augmented dynamic factor model with time-varying parameters and stochastic volatility (TVP-VAR-DFM-SV) to extract a...