The importance of a country's "investment climate" for economic growth has recently received much attention. The authors address the general lack of appropriate data for measuring the investment climate and its effects. The authors use a new survey of 1,500 Chinese enterprises in five cities to...

The importance of a country's "investment climate" for economic growth has recently received much attention. A contribution of this paper is to address the general lack of appropriate data for measuring the investment climate and its effects. In this paper we use a new survey of 1500 Chinese...

We provide one of the first comprehensive and most updated studies on the effects of firms’ organizational resources, country institutions, and national culture on the survival and growth of private firms around the world during the COVID-19 pandemic. Analyzing World Bank Enterprise Follow-up...