Publications

Journal Articles

• • Institutions, Ownership, and Finance: The Determinants of Profit Reinvestment among Chinese Firms , with R. Cull, Journal of Financial Economics, 77, 117-46, 2005.

  • Information, Incentive, and Commitment , with M. Shirley, The Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 14(2), 358-78, 1998.

  • Determinants of the Re-Partitioning of Property Rights Between the Government and State Enterprises , Economic Development and Cultural Change, 46(3), 537-560, 1998.

  • East Asian Corporations, Before and During the Recent Financial Crisis , with S. Claessons and S. Djankov, World Bank Research Observer, 15(1), 23-46, February 2000.

  • Bureaucrats, State Banks, and the Efficiency of Credit Allocation: The Experience of Chinese State-Owned Enterprises , with R. Cull, Journal of Comparative Economics, 28, 1-31, March 2000.

  • Control, Incentives, and Competition: The Impact of Reform in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises , Economics of Transition, 8(1), 151-173, March 2000.

  • Corruption, Income Distribution, and Growth , with H. Li, H. Zou, Economics and Politics, 12(2), 155-82, July 2000.

  • Explaining the Change of Income Distribution in China , with H. Zou, China Economic Review 11, 1-22, 2000.

  • “The Empirical Effects of Performance Contracts,” with M. Shirley, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 17(1), 168-200, April 2001.

  • State-Owned Enterprises, Labor Redundancy, and Job Creation: The Experience of the Chinese Provinces , with Guo Li, China Economic Quarterly 1(1) (in Chinese, published by CCER of Peking University), November 2001.

  • “Surveying surveys and Questioning Questions,” with F. Recanatini and S. Wallsten. China Economic Quarterly (in Chinese, published by CCER of Peking University), November 2002.

  • “Are There Returns to Early Work Experience?” with V. Hotz, A. Ahituv, and M. Tienda, Review of Economics and Statistics 84(2), 221-236, May 2002.

  • The Political Economy of Telecom Privatization and Competition with W. Li, Journal of Comparative Economics, September 2002.

  • The Timing of Marriage in China , with C. Qiang, L. Wang, Annals of Economics and Finance, forthcoming, 2003.

  • “Agency Theory and Compensation of CEOs of Chinese State Enterprises” with T. Mengistae, Journal of Labor Economics, forthcoming, 2004.

  • Who Gets Credit? The Behavior of Bureaucrats and State Banks in Allocating Credit to Chinese SOEs , with R. Cull, Journal of Development Economics, forthcoming.

Chapters in Books

• • “Racial and Ethnic Variations in First Labor Market Encounter,” with V. J. Hotz, A. Ahituv and M. Tienda, The Industrial Relation Research Association Proceedings, 256-265, 1994.

  • “Reforming the Urban Water System in Santiago, Chile” with M. Shirley and A. Zuluaga, and “Institutions, Politics, and Contracts: The Attempt to Privatize the Water and Sanitation Utility of Lima, Peru,” with L. Alcarza and A. Zuluaga, in Thirsting for Efficiency: Experiences in Reforming Urban Water System, M. Shirley (ed.), Oxford, England: Elsevier Press, 2002.

Other Papers

• • Down Sizing, Firm Performance, and Income Distribution: Evaluating the Labor Restructuring Program in Chinese Firms , with X. Dong, Manuscript, 2005.

  • Eat, Drink, Firms and Government: An Investigation of Corruption from Entertainment Expenditures of Chinese Firms with H.Cai and H. Fang, Manuscript, 2005.