In the past decade, the Chinese government was increasingly relying on revenues from land sales to finance the public spending. This paper examines the impacts of land financing on business cycle fluctuations in China in an estimated DSGE model. The simulation results indicate that the overall...

Long-short portfolios based on market anomalies are subject to ubiquitous short-sale constraints. Few studies directly quantify the impact of shorting on long-short strategies, largely due to the complexity of the shorting practice. We examine the Chinese market, in which the scope of the...

We use panel data from 30 provinces of China over the period 2002-2019 to examine the effect of rising urban real estate prices on employment. Empirical results, using instrumental variable estimation, show that rising urban real estate prices have a negative and statistically significant impact...

Due to the quick advancement of science and technology, the services sector which has a high content of knowledge and technology has experienced globally expeditious development in the past decade. Development in general and the growth of Knowledge Intensive Business Services (KIBS) such as...