"A new strain of coronavirus emerged sometime in November 2019, and within weeks a cluster of patients began to be admitted to hospitals in Wuhan with severe pneumonia, most of them linked to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market. China's seemingly effective containment of the first stage of the...

The United States (“U.S.”) Federal Reserve (“Fed”) categorized the China Investment Corporation (“CIC”) and Central Huijin Investment Limited (“Huijin”) as Bank Holding Companies under U.S. financial law, and granted CIC and Huijin some important conditional exemptions....

This paper attempts to broaden the existing empirical literature on foreign direct investment by incorporating government expenditures (both investment in infrastructure and consumption) as well as tax, classical location factors, institutional factors that may hinder business investment (such...