This paper employs gravity models to analyze the influence of Confucius Institutes (CI) on outward trade and FDI flows from China. We find significant increases in both Chinese exports and outward FDI flows to developing countries through establishment and operation of CIs, but little impact on...

This paper examines the dynamic dependence structure between Chinese Yuan and each of ve other currencies in the Asia-Paci fic region on non-deliverable forward contracts over the period of July 4, 2006 throughout August 31, 2011. Using the date that Lehman Brothers led for bankruptcy as the...

The Split share Structure Reform in year 2005-2006 raises the curtain for China's secondary privatization. It mitigates the agency conflicts between controlling shareholders and minority shareholders and, thus, brings substantial changes to China's financing behaviors. This paper aims to examine...

This paper examines the impact of cultural distance in general and the Confucius Institute Network in particular on cross-border flows of tourists, goods and investment in and out of China. We estimate a panel gravity model of inbound and outbound flows between 2004 and 2012. We find that the...

This paper examines the impact of Confucius Institutes on inbound travel to China. We estimate a panel gravity model of inbound tourism flows to China between 2004 and 2010. We use a Poisson Pseudo-maximum likelihood estimator to control for heteroskedasticity endemic in gravity models (Santos...