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Expropriation Risk and Investment: What Policy Makers can Learn from a Natural Experiment in China
Property rights institutions govern the ownership and usage of economic resources. Strong property rights institutions help enforce contracts between the government and private entities and constrain a government’s arbitrary behavior and expropriation activities, the threat of which lowers firms’ expected ...
https://iems.ust.hk/publications/thought-leadership-briefs/huang-expropriation-risk-and-investment-what-policy-makers-can-learn-from-a-natural-experiment-in-china-tlb70
Expropriation Risk and Investment: A Natural Experiment
This paper uses the enactment of China’s 2007 Property Law (the Law), which reduces the risk of expropriation by local governments, as the setting to investigate the importance of property rights protection for private firm investment. Using propensity score matching and a difference-in-differences design, we ...
https://iems.ust.hk/events/academic-seminar/2022/expropriation-risk-and-investment-a-natural-experiment-by-allen-huang
Expropriation Risk and Investment: A Natural Experiment
Abstract This paper uses the enactment of China’s 2007 Property Law (the Law), which reduces the risk of expropriation by local governments, as the setting to investigate the importance of property rights protection for private firm investment. Using propensity score matching and a ...
https://iems.ust.hk/publications/iems-working-papers/bhambhwani-dong-huang-expropriation-risk-and-investment-a-natural-experiment-wp83
Decoding Common Prosperity
Global investors and analysts have been scrambling to decipher "common prosperity" and its implications for China’s future policies and economic prospects. Perhaps the most important place to look for clues is in a manifesto that Xi delivered as a speech to officials at the CCP’s Central ...
https://iems.ust.hk/events/talk/2022/yuen-yuen-ang-decoding-common-prosperity-china
Singapore's Experience living with Covid: Policy lessons for Hong Kong?
Hong Kong and Singapore share a number of similarities: they are financial and business hubs, they are city-states, and their economies rely on their connectivity with the region and the rest of the world. Despite these apparent similarities, their approaches to Covid-19 have increasingly diverged. While both are ...
https://iems.ust.hk/events/talk/2022/woo-wu-joong-low-sinapore-experience-living-with-covid-policy-lessons-for-hong-kong
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