This Article seeks to capture the significance and dilemmas associated with the intellectual property rights (IPRs) protection in China and to demystify the mysteries of the enforcement problems. It assesses shortcomings of the IPR enforcement and sheds new light on enforcement problems by...

We consider a model of network interactions where the outcome of a unit depends on the outcomes of the connected units. We determine the key network link, i.e., the network link whose removal results in the largest reduction in the aggregate outcomes, and provide a measure that quantifies the...

We consider a model of network interactions where the outcome of a unit depends on the outcomes of the connected units. We determine the key network link, i.e., the network link whose removal results in the largest reduction in the aggregate outcomes, and provide a measure that quantifies the...

Existing studies on multinational enterprise (MNE) location strategy assume that MNEs are focused on economic not political objectives. The emergence of globalizing state-owned enterprises (SOEs) requires us to revisit such an assumption because SOEs symbolize national interests of their home...

We estimate the impacts of the large-scale city lockdown following the COVID-19 outbreak on surface water quality in China using the difference-in-differences and event study methods. Using a comprehensive data set of station-level surface water quality in China, we find that dissolved oxygen is...