Jiahua CHE (车嘉华）
My research interest falls in the areas of (1) China's economy and political economy, (2) comparative institutional analysis, (3) theory of the firm, (4) development economics, and (5) international trade
Publications
Career Concerns, Beijing Style (with Kim-Sau Chung and Xue Qiao) International Economic Review, forthcoming
The King Can Do No Wrong: On the Criminal Immunity of Leaders (with Kim-Sau Chung and Xue Qiao) Journal of Public Economics, Volume 170, February 2019, Pages 15-26
Decentralization and Political Career Concerns (with Kim-Sau Chung and Yang K. Lu) Journal of Public Economics, Volume 145, January 2017, Pages 201-210
The Good, the Bad, and the Civil Society (with Kim-Sau Chung and Xue Qiao) Journal of Public Economics Volume 106, October 2013, Pages 68-76
Entry, Reputation, and Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement (with Larry Qiu and Wen Zhou) Canadian Journal of Economics Volume 47, November 2014, Pages 1256-81
A Dynamic Model of Privatization with Endogenous Post-Privatization Performance Review of Economic Studies Volume 76, April 2009, Pages 563-596
Culutural Differences, Insecure Property Rights and the Mode of Entry Decision (with Giovanni Facchini) Economic Theory Volume 38, March 2009, Pages 465-484
Dual Track Reform: With and Without Losers (with Giovanni Facchini) Journal of Public Economics Volume 91, December 2007, Pages 2291-2306
Rent Seeking and Government Ownership of Firms: An Application to China's Township–Village Enterprises Journal of Comparative Economics Volume 30, December 2002, Pages 787-811
Insecure Property Rights and Government Ownership of Firms (with Yingyi Qian) Quarterly Journal of Economics Volume 113, May 1998, Pages 467-496
Institutional Environment, Community Government, and Corporate Governance: Understanding China's Township and Village Enterprises (with Yingyi Qian) Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (lead article) Volume 14, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-23
Work in progress
A Three-Party Game of Institutional Resilience and Institutional Change: A Model and Comparative History of China-Japan Revisited (with Masahiko Aoki and Masaki Nakabayashi)
The Confidant (with Yufeng Sun)
Identifying Experts by Experts (with Kim-sau Chung)
Factions, Loyalty, and an Evolving Authoritarian Regime (with Kim-sau Chung)
Asymmetric Trade with Heterogeneous Firms (with Wen Zhou)
Entry, Size Expansion, and Gains from Trade with Heterogeneous Firms (with Wen Zhou)
The Last Supper: Complementing Financial Discipline with Bailouts (with Wen Zhou)
Dynamic Non-Rivalry and Limits to Private Ownership
A Road Next to Democracy: China's Communist Party Regime as a Self-Selecting Mechanism of Succession
Ceteris Paribus: the Patterns of Knowledge Production and Dissemination and their Long-term Implications
Multilateral Investment Agreement (with Gerald Willmann)