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Sharing the Experience of Diaspora Investment Governance : Lessons from a Chinese Island Economy

Ye, Zhen (Peter) - 2014

This paper explores the dynamic of investment governance from the perspective of Diaspora investment governance in an … island economy in China. It is not a study of investment governance as understood in the conventional developed sense. The … arrival of foreign direct investment and human capital creating new linkages from the old and changing business practices …

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The Economics of China's Between-City Height Competitions : A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Lu, Jiaxuan - 2022

This article characterizes China's between-city skyscraper contest with an infinitely-repeated game. The mixed strategy equilibrium of this dynamic game-theoretic model implies that a Chinese city would be more inclined to build a taller skyscraper if the height of its current tallest building...

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Virtual Currencies; Bitcoin & What Now after Liberty Reserve, Silk Road, and Mt. Gox?

Trautman, Lawrence J. - 2017

currencies; drugs; fake IDs and passports; high yield investment schemes (Ponzi schemes and other financial frauds); sexual …

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Bidding behavior in a symmetric Chinese auction

Benegas, Mauricio - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 16 (2015) 1, pp. 93-110

This paper purposes a symmetric all-pay auction where the bidders compete neither for an object nor the object itself but for a lottery on receive. That lottery is determined endogenously through the bids. This auction is known as chance auction or more popularly as Chinese auction. The model...

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Auction Mechanisms and Treasury Revenue : Evidence from the Chinese Experiment

Barbosa, Klenio - 2019

This paper exploits a large-size auction experiment conducted by two Chinese Government Treasury security issuers---the Chinese Development Bank and the Export-Import Bank---to investigate whether Treasury securities should be sold through uniform or discriminatory auction mechanisms. Based on...

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The consequences of corruption: evidences from China

Dong, Bin; Torgler, Benno - 2010

observe that regional corruption significantly reduces inbound foreign direct investment in Chinese regions, which indicates …

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Cooperation under democracy and authoritarian norms

Vollan, Björn; Zhou, Yexin; Landmann, Andreas; Hu, Biliang - 2013

There is ample evidence for a "democracy premium". Laws that have been implemented via election lead to a more cooperative behavior compared to a top-down approach. This has been observed using field data and laboratory experiments. We present evidence from Chinese students and workers who...

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The Consequences of Corruption: Evidence from China

Dong, Bin; Torgler, Benno - 2010

observe that regional corruption significantly reduces inbound foreign direct investment in Chinese regions, which indicates …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168348

Importing Political Polarization? The Electoral Consequences of Rising Trade Exposure

Autor, David; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon; Majlesi, Kaveh - 2016

Has rising trade integration between the U.S. and China contributed to the polarization of U.S. politics? Analyzing outcomes from the 2002 and 2010 congressional elections, we detect an ideological realignment that is centered in trade-exposed local labor markets and that commences prior to the...

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From the grabbing hand to the helping hand: A rent seeking model of China's township-village enterprises

Che, Jiahua - 2002

government agency extracts rents from a manager who undertakes an investment. Such a government rent seeking activity leads to a …

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