This study explores the inter-type real estate investment connectedness in China. We document that: (1) connectedness is strong and time-varying; (2) the residential investment is instrumental in the inter-type investment connectedness network; (3) the total connectedness has dropped since 2008; and...

We examine the price discovery performance of China’s crude oil futures traded on the Shanghai International Energy Exchange (INE) for the spot prices of 19 types of deliverable and non-deliverable Asian crude oil. We find evidence for the INE crude oil futures price discovery function even at...

The paper proposes a model to investigate the influences of agglomeration on heterogeneous firms' exporting behaviors. In the model, firms are heterogeneous in productivity. Selection effect and agglomeration economies caused by agglomeration increase firms' productivity and decreases industrial...