In January 2015, The Swiss Franc (CHF) appreciated unexpectedly against the Euro by approximately 15%. We document a new fact: French firms that exported to both the Swiss market and the Eurozone also exhibited a sudden change in their export prices to the Eurozone. We coin this the “exchange...

This book provides a historical overview of Chinese economic reform over the past 30 years. From the genesis of the reform to the gradual improvement of the market system, and then to the re-start of the critical stage of the reform, this book includes not only research on the reform process,...

Introduction : patterns in circulation -- Fashioning the body : dressing the public self -- Archival prints : alternate histories of taste and circulation -- Branding cloth, branding nation : the Nana Benz and the materiality of power -- Flexible patterns : the nanettes remake the market and...