"Informatization," a policy of integrated telecommunications development, is regarded as one of the driving forces behind the Chinese government's "new socialist countryside" program. Various national and provincial programs have been initiated to connect the agricultural communities to the...

Misappropriation has become the accepted explanation for the refinancing behavior of Chinese listed companies, although the evidence in support of such an explanation is worthy of further discussion. We argue that if a planned refinancing exercise does not become a reality, post-refinancing...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyze the reason for Chinese local officials' enthusiasm towards cultivating newly listed firms within their jurisdictions.Design/methodology/approach: With new initial public offering (IPO) firms on the Chinese A-share market over 1999~2003 as samples,...

Governments, businesses and other interested parties have taken various steps to bridge the digital divide. Some countries, particularly those in the Asia-Pacific region, have made national plans. Initially, most of their efforts were devoted to increasing the level of connectivity in rural...

Although at the country and industry level there is much evidence on the importance of access to services for exports and participation in global value chains, such evidence is largely absent at the firm level. In this paper we use a newly constructed dataset that connects city-level access to...

This paper investigates the effect of robot adoption on employment adjustment in China. By using detailed Chinese firm-level data and addressing endogeneity, we find that using industrial robots increases employment within firms, especially when focusing on the employment of high-educated and...