Over the last two decades, globalisation has led to the rapidly increasing growth of foreign direct investment (FDI) all over the world. China, one of the largest net importers of FDI in the world, represents a country with a substantial share of foreign ownership whose FDI experience has been...

This paper examines the impact of minimum wage policies on employment, income, and working time of Chinese workers. Using data from China Health and Nutrition Survey, we focus on identifying the effects of minimum wage adjustments using a pre-specified model. We control for lagged minimum wage...

In the last decade, the Chinese government-owned banks have undergone a privatization program resulting in considerable changes in ownership of Chinese banks. These changes invite important questions to be answered. In particular how have banks changed in terms of performance indicators with...

This paper constructs a model of the performance of Chinese (Mainland) owned banks operating in Hong Kong, compared to Hong Kong (SAR) owned banks and Foreign owned banks. In general the proposed model performs well under diagnostic tests for net interest margin, non-interest expense, impaired...