Does working fewer hours lead to better health outcomes? This study answers this question in the context of China’s Workweek Reduction Policy. In 1995, China reduced the weekly working hours of state employees from 48 hours to 40 hours without changing their wages. By using China Health and...

This paper studies the role of government expenditure in shaping inflation dynamics via the lens of the Phillips curve. We estimate the Phillips curve implied from a structural New Keynesian model that incorporates government expenditure using aggregate US data. Our estimation results based on...

Since the 1990s, China's real estate market has experienced a dramatic and long-lasting boom across China. This boom has led to substantial concerns in both academic and policy circles that the rising housing prices might have developed into a gigantic housing bubble, which might eventually...

This paper measures the output and TFP costs of sovereign risk incorporating its impact on firm-level intangible investment. Combining Italian aggregate and firm-level data, we show that firms reduced their investment and reallocated resources away from intangible assets and towards tangible...

Since the 1990s, China's real estate market has experienced a dramatic and long-lasting boom across China. This boom has led to substantial concerns in both academic and policy circles that the rising housing prices might have developed into a gigantic housing bubble, which might eventually...