the relationship between financial structure and firm growth in China, controlling for the endogeneity of the former. It … finds that financial structure does matter for firm growth in China, although this does not tell the whole story. The …

One downside effect of rapid economic growth in China has been the ever rising inter-regional inequality. Foreign … FDI has been an important factor of economic growth in China. It also suggests that it is the uneven distribution of FDI …

China. It documents robust evidence that political affiliation enhances firms’ survival and growth prospects, even if …

China has accelerated and deepened bank reform since it joined the WTO in 2001. Employing a stochastic distance … governance changes on bank efficiency in China for the period 1995-2005. Our results show that bank efficiency has been improved … foreign competition is beneficial to China 's on-going bank reform, and going-public is just a means to allow effective …

This paper investigates the link between inward FDI and innovation activity in China, using a very comprehensive and …

Employing the one-step stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) approach, this paper examines bank efficiency in China … short-term. The research findings have important implications on future bank reforms in China in the aftermath of the …

This study compares alternative measures of the potential and actual pollution content of China’s trade using an … environmental I-O methodology. Using the conventional, potential measure adopted by other researchers, we find that China ‘saves’ on … were produced locally in China. A less positive, assessment of the environmental impact of China’s trade emerges, however …

and skills) of the regions of China to affect China’s specialization and trade patterns. It does so using both the lens … specialization. The results are sensitive to the level of regional aggregation. The paper concludes, however, that China was …