Starting in the late 1990s, China undertook a dramatic transformation of the large number of firms under state control …

We discuss China's stance in the WTO post-accession, noting the many issues with implementation of China's accession … terms by 2007. We evaluate how much benefit China can realistically receive from WTO membership given current problems with … dumping actions against China and trade restrictions against textile and apparel exports. We discuss emerging WTO and non-WTO …

This paper presents an analysis of the effect of China's entry into the WTO on the quality choices of Chinese exporters … upgrading made possible by China's tariff reductions was concentrated in the least productive Chinese exporters. These firms …

This paper studies the urban land market in China in 2003--2007. In China, all urban land is owned by the state …

The majority of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in China were privatized through ownership reforms over the last two … decades. Using a comprehensive dataset of all medium and large enterprises in China between 1998 and 2013, we show that … there are clear improvements in performance post-privatization. The tiger can change its stripes; however, the government …

and widely taking place in China, it is much less known whether and to what extent privatization has improved resource …While it is by now well known that the privatization of township- and village-run enterprises (TVREs) has been rapidly … allocation and productivity. As a first step toward the fuller understanding of the effect of privatization, this study …

in China in the years around the privatizations of state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Innovation increases after SOE …

We document the market response to an unexpected announcement of proposed sales of government-owned shares in China. In … contrast to the quot;privatization premiumquot; found in earlier work, we find a negative effect of government ownership on …, suggesting that personal ties can substitute for the benefits of government ownership. The quot;privatization discountquot; is …