in explaining the enormous but puzzling county-level variations in development performance in Fujian province of China …

requirements in China. This paper finds that Chinese cities whose top officials were older than age 58 were 20 percent less likely …-varying selectivity of privatizations and highlight the crucial role that state-owned enterprise privatizations played in China's economic …

A void in the literature on the business environment is how it evolves over time. Focusing on China during its crucial … better educated, with more diverse sectoral experience. Market competition increased over time, especially after China …

The Taiping Rebellion (1851-1864) in China was the deadliest civil war in history. This paper provides evidence that …