China is accused of pursuing anti-rest-of the-world policies that cause the massive trade deficit of the US and the decline of its manufacturing industry. Specifically China is accused of adopting an exchange rate policy whereby a weak currency is maintained to the detriment of the rest of the...

An attempt is made to verify the exchange rate regime that China has been following since 21 July 2005 when a policy shift was implemented, presumably taking China from a dollar peg to a basket peg. The results show that while a regime of simple and strict dollar peg has indeed been abandoned,...

This article deals with three propositions pertaining to U.S.-Chinese dispute over the trade imbalance between them: that the Chinese currency is undervalued, that this undervaluation is the cause of the trade imbalance, and that Chinese policies are immoral and illegal according to...

Over the last several years, the U.S. has been accusing China of manipulating its currency to keep it undervalued against the U.S. dollar. As a result, the prosecutor claims that the U.S. has been running a persistent trade deficit with China caused entirely by currency under-valuation. We argue...

This paper presents empirical evidence on the effects of environmental regulation announcements on corporate performance in China when performance is proxied by stock returns. While some results indicate the effectiveness of environmental regulation, others point to the opposite. The perverse...