The specific objective of this paper is the investigation of the link between an improvement in Chinese households’ wealth and the quality of their diet and the role played by this relationship on the overall nutrition transition process. Better economic conditions mean a worsening of the diet...

The subprime mortgage crisis of 2007-2008 has led major economies to reform their credit rating regulations, and China is not an exception. This paper employs a difference-in-difference research design to investigate whether reputational capital affects credit rating agencies. The first...

How quickly can we expect human mobility to resume to pre-pandemic levels after lockdowns? Does pandemic severity affect the speed of post-lockdown recovery? Using real-time cross-city human mobility data from China and a difference-in-difference-in-differences framework, we find that mobility...