Tax policies seen in developing countries are puzzling on many dimensions. To begin with, revenue/GDP is surprisingly small compared with that in developed economies. Taxes on labor income play a minor role. Taxes on consumption are important, but effective tax rates vary dramatically by firm,...

Agency MBSs with diverse characteristics are traded in parallel through individualized specified pool (SP) contracts and standardized to-be-announced (TBA) contracts. This parallel trading environment generates distinctive effects on MBS pricing and trading: (1) Although cheapest-to-deliver...

We investigate the joint effects of short-selling, floating constraints and heterogeneous beliefs on stock prices by using a unique data set of cross-listed Chinese stocks. Because domestic A-shares are subject to both short-selling and floating restrictions while foreign H-shares are not,...

One of the puzzles about the Chinese economy has been the huge amount of foreign reserves that China holds. By conventional standards, China's reserve holdings are simply more than enough for its external trade and debt obligations. This research however argues that the overall level of China's...