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Capital Market Development: China and Asia

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Apr 2021

Going Bankrupt in China

Bo LI, Jacopo PONTICELLI
Using a new case-level dataset, we document a set of stylized facts on bankruptcy in China and study how the staggered introduction of specialized courts across Chinese cities affected insolvency resolution and the local economy. For identification, we compare bankruptcy cases handled by specialized...
Keywords: Specialized courts, Political influence, Court efficiency, Zombie firms
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Capital Market Development: China and Asia

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Mar 2021

The SOE Premium and Government Support in China's Credit Market

Jun PAN, Zhe GENG
Studying China’s credit market, we find improved price efficiency and paradoxically, worsening segmentation as, amid government-led credit tightening, perceived government support for state-owned enterprises (SOEs) causes the credit spreads of non-SOEs to explode relative to their SOE counterparts...
Keywords: SOE Premium, Government Support, Credit Risk, Price Discovery, Chinese Corporate Bond
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Senior Fellows/Fellows, Pandemic

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May 2020

The Role of Corporate Culture in Bad Times: Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic

Kai LI, Xing LIU, Feng MAI, Tengfei ZHANG
After fitting a topic model to 40,927 COVID-19-related paragraphs in 3,581 earnings calls over the period January 22 to April 30, 2020, we obtain firm-level measures of exposure and response related to COVID-19 for 2,894 U.S. firms. We show that despite the large negative impact of COVID-19 on their...
Keywords: corporate culture, COVID-19, Pandemic, demand, supply chain, employees, community, digital transformation, new product development, Human capital, machine learning, topic modeling, correlated topic model
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Senior Fellows/Fellows, Pandemic

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May 2020

Economic Uncertainty Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Scott R. BAKER, Nicholas A. BLOOM, David E. ALTIG, Jose Maria BARRERO, Brent MEYER, Philip BUNN, Scarlet CHEN, Julia LEATHER, Emil MIHAYLOV, Paul MIZEN, Thomas RENAULT, Gregory THWAITES, Pawel SMIETANKA, Nicholas PARKER
We consider several economic uncertainty indicators for the US and UK before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: implied stock market volatility, newspaper-based policy uncertainty, Twitter chatter about economic uncertainty, subjective uncertainty about business growth, forecaster disagreement about ...
Keywords: forward-looking uncertainty measures, volatility, COVID-19, Coronavirus
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Senior Fellows/Fellows, Pandemic

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May 2020

Human Mobility Restrictions and the Spread of the Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in China

Hanming FANG, Long WANG, Yang YANG
We quantify the causal impact of human mobility restrictions, particularly the lockdown of Wuhan on January 23, 2020, on the containment and delay of the spread of the Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV). We employ difference-in-differences (DID) estimations to disentangle the lockdown effect on human mob...
Keywords: Human Mobility, Lockdown, Social Distancing, 2019-nCoVCOVID-19, Disease Outbreak
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