different cities within China, this paper investigates the contributing factors to China's rising export sophistication … the increased overlap between China's export structure and that of high-income countries. Instead, improvement in human …

China. The novel feature of our approach is that at a very disaggregated level of individual products, we can measure … evasion relatively precisely, by comparing the values that China reports as imports from Hong Kong, with what Hong Kong … reports as exports to China. We can match up this evasion gap' with the tariff (and VAT tax) schedule at the product level …

The United States imports intermediate inputs from China, helping downstream US firms to expand employment. Using a … total impact of trading with China is a positive boost to local employment and real wages. The most important factor is …

explain this puzzle. From analyzing bank loan data associated with China's introduction of the Qualified Foreign Institutional …

, however, may be affected by relationships between auditor and target. We study whether provincial chief auditors in China show …

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 …

This paper examines the impact of a property rights reform in rural China that allowed farmers to lease out their land …

census of China's exports. Intermediaries account for around 20% of China's exports in 2005. This implies that many firms …