SSRN HKUST Institute for Emerging Market Studies Research Paper Series

1.

Impacts of the Belt and Road in the Eurasian Heartland

HKUST IEMS Working Paper No. 38

Number of pages: 4 Posted: 20 May 2020

Accepted Paper Series

Alexey Kalinin and Albert Park

Moscow School of Management - Skolkovo Institute for Emerging Market Studies and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST)

Downloads 8

2.

Decentralized Targeting of Agricultural Credit Programs: Private versus Political Intermediaries

HKUST IEMS Working Paper No. 2020-70

Number of pages: 69 Posted: 05 Feb 2020

Working Paper Series

Pushkar Maitra, Sandip Mitra, Dilip Mookherjee and Sujata Visaria

Monash University - Department of Economics, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, Boston University - Department of Economics and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST)

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 5

3.

Influence Activities and Bureaucratic Performance: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment in China

HKUST IEMS Working Paper No. 2019-69

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 05 Feb 2020

Working Paper Series

Alain de Janvry, Guojun He, Elisabeth Sadoulet, Shaoda Wang and Qiong Zhang

University of California, Berkeley - The Richard & Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, University of California, Berkeley - The Richard & Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley and Renmin University of China

Downloads 15

4.

Energy Saving Can Kill: Evidence from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident

HKUST IEMS Working Paper No. 2019-67

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 05 Feb 2020

Working Paper Series

Guojun He and Takanao Tanaka

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST)

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 8

5.

Realizing Hong Kong’s Innovation Potential in the Greater Bay Area

HKUST IEMS Working Paper No. 36

Number of pages: 4 Posted: 23 Jan 2020 Last Revised: 01 Jun 2020

Accepted Paper Series

Naubahar Sharif

Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) - Division of Social Science

Downloads 8

6.

Eye in the Sky: Private Satellites and Government Macro Data

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming, HKUST IEMS Working Paper No. 2019-68

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 12 Sep 2019 Last Revised: 24 Feb 2020

Accepted Paper Series

Abhiroop Mukherjee, George Panayotov and Janghoon Shon

Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) - Department of Finance, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) - Department of Finance

Downloads 185

7.

Straw Burning, PM 2.5 and Death: Evidence from China

HKUST IEMS Working Paper No. 2019-66

Number of pages: 65 Posted: 21 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 03 Mar 2020

Working Paper Series

Guojun He, Tong Liu and Maigeng Zhou

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST), School of Humanities and Social Science, Division of Social Science, Students and Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis Treatment of Infectious Diseases - National Center for Chronic and Noncommunicable Disease Control and Prevention

Downloads 46

8.

Regulation of AI Technologies in the Construction Industry

HKUST IEMS Working Paper No. 2019-65

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 21 Aug 2019

Working Paper Series

Vishnu Sivarudran Pillai and Kira Matus

Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) - HKUST Institute for Emerging Market Studies (IEMS) and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) - HKUST Institute for Emerging Market Studies (IEMS)

Downloads 47

9.

Processing Trade, Productivity and Prices: Evidence from a Chinese Production Survey

HKUST IEMS Working Paper No. 2018-58

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 01 Aug 2019

Working Paper Series

Yao Amber Li, Frederic Warzynski and Valérie Smeets

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - School of Business and Management, Department of Economics; HKUST IEMS (Institute for Emerging Market Studies), Aarhus University - Department of Economics and Aarhus University

Downloads 4

10.

Enforcing Regulation under Illicit Adaptation

HKUST IEMS Working Paper No. 2018-57

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 01 Aug 2019

Working Paper Series

Andres Gonzalez Lira and Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak

University of California, Berkeley and Yale School of Management

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 2

11.

Roads and Loans

HKUST IEMS Working Paper No. 2019-61

Number of pages: 69 Posted: 16 Jul 2019

Working Paper Series

Sumit Agarwal, Abhiroop Mukherjee and S Lakshmi Naaraayanan

National University of Singapore, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) - Department of Finance and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) - Department of Finance

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 12

12.

Nominal Stock Price Anchors: A Global Phenomenon?

HKUST IEMS Working Paper No. 2019-64

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 15 Jul 2019

Working Paper Series

Kee-Hong Bae, Utpal Bhattacharya, Jisok Kang and S. Ghon Rhee

York University - Schulich School of Business, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) - HKUST School of Business and Management, John Carroll University - Department of Economics & Finance and University of Hawaii at Manoa - Shidler College of Business

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 28

13.

Technology, Skills, and Globalization: Explaining International Differences in Routine and Nonroutine Work Using Survey Data

HKUST IEMS Working Paper No. 2019-60

Number of pages: 65 Posted: 09 Jul 2019

Working Paper Series

Piotr Lewandowski, Albert Park, Wojciech Hardy and Yang Du

Institute for Structural Research (IBS), Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST), Institute for Structural Research (IBS) and Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS)

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 23

14.

How Big is China's Digital Economy?

HKUST IEMS Working Paper No. 2018-56, Bruegel Working Paper Series

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 31 Aug 2018

Working Paper Series

Alicia García-Herrero and Jianwei Xu

Bruegel and Beijing Normal University (BNU) - School of Economics and Business Administration

Downloads 74

15.

Moral Incentives in Credit Card Debt Repayment: Evidence from a Field Experiment

HKUST IEMS Working Paper No. 2018-55

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 30 Aug 2018

Working Paper Series

Leonardo Bursztyn, Stefano Fiorin, Daniel Gottlieb and Martin Kanz

University of Chicago - Department of Economics, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - UC San Diego, Washington University in St. Louis and World Bank

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 13

16.

From Political Power to Personal Wealth: Privatization, Elite Opportunity, and Social Stratification in Post-Reform China

HKUST IEMS Working Paper No. 2017-45

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 31 Jan 2018

Working Paper Series

Duoduo Xu and Xiaogang Wu

Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) - Division of Social Science and University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - Population Studies Center

Downloads 44

17.

Understanding and Tackling Unethical Consumption: The Case of Counterfeit Consumption

HKUST IEMS Working Paper No. 2017-42

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 31 Jan 2018

Working Paper Series

(Joyce)Jingshi Liu, Amy Dalton and Jiewen Hong

Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) - Department of Marketing, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) - Department of Marketing and Northwestern University - Department of Marketing

Downloads 46

18.

Recent Developments in Trade, Investment and Finance of China's Belt and Road

HKUST IEMS Working Paper No. 2018-50

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 30 Jan 2018

Working Paper Series

Alicia García-Herrero and Jianwei Xu

Bruegel and Beijing Normal University (BNU) - School of Economics and Business Administration

Downloads 151

19.

The Equity Impacts of Targeted Smallholder Agricultural Credit

HKUST IEMS Working Paper No. 2017-41

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 03 Mar 2017

Working Paper Series

Pushkar Maitra, Sandip Mitra, Dilip Mookherjee and Sujata Visaria

Monash University - Department of Economics, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, Boston University - Department of Economics and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST)

Downloads 44

20.

Do College Graduates Serving as Village Officials Help Rural China?

HKUST IEMS Working Paper No. 2016-39

Number of pages: 66 Posted: 16 Dec 2016

Working Paper Series

Guojun He and Shaoda Wang

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and University of California, Berkeley

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 73

21.

China's Belt and Road Initiative: Can Europe Expect Trade Gains?

Garcia-Herrero, Alicia & Xu, Jianwei, 2016. “China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Can Europe Expect Trade Gains?”, Working Paper Series, Issue 5, Bruegel Research Institute, HKUST IEMS Working Paper No. 2016-38,

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 16 Dec 2016

Working Paper Series

Alicia García-Herrero and Jianwei Xu

Bruegel and Beijing Normal University (BNU) - School of Economics and Business Administration

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 173

22.

Technology or Upskilling? Trends in the Task Composition of Jobs in Central and Eastern Europe

Hardy, Wojciech and Keister, Roma and Lewandowski, Piotr, 2016. "Technology or Upskilling? Trends in the Task Composition of Jobs in Central and Eastern Europe," IBS Working Paper Series, Institute of Structural Research (IBS)., HKUST IEMS Working Paper No. 2016-40

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 16 Dec 2016 Last Revised: 08 Jul 2019

Working Paper Series

Wojciech Hardy, Roma Keister and Piotr Lewandowski

Institute for Structural Research (IBS), Institute for Structural Research (IBS) and Warsaw School of Economics (SGH)

Downloads 212

23.

A Better Vision for Development: Eyeglasses and Academic Performance in Rural Primary Schools in China

HKUST IEMS Working Paper No. 2015-37

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 20 Jun 2016

Working Paper Series

Paul Glewwe, Albert Park and Meng Zhao

University of Minnesota - College of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences - Department of Applied Economics, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) and Gakushuin University

Downloads 67

24.

Surface Water Quality and Infant Mortality in China

HKUST IEMS Working Paper No. 2015-32

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 20 Jun 2016

Working Paper Series

Guojun He and Jeffrey M. Perloff

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics

Downloads 50

25.

Benefiting from Disaster?: Public and Private Responses to the Wenchuan Earthquake

HKUST IEMS Working Paper No. 2015-36

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 16 Jun 2016

Working Paper Series

Albert Park and Sangui Wang

Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) and Renmin University - The School of Agriculture and Rural Development

Downloads 23

26.

Travel Behavior, Energy Use, and Carbon Emissions: Evidence from Shenzhen, China

HKUST IEMS Working Paper No. 2015-35

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 16 Jun 2016

Working Paper Series

Shengyuan Zhang, Jimin Zhao and Albert Park

Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) - Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) - Division of Social Science and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST)

Downloads 29

27.

Assessing Urban Transport Systems Through the Lens of Individual Behavior: Shenzhen and Hong Kong

HKUST IEMS Working Paper No. 2015-34

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 16 Jun 2016

Working Paper Series

Shengyuan Zhang and Jimin Zhao

Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) - Division of Social Science and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) - Division of Social Science

Downloads 31

28.

Input-Trade Liberalization and Markups

HKUST IEMS Working Paper No. 2015-26

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 16 Jun 2016

Working Paper Series

Haichao Fan, Yao Amber Li and Tuan Anh Luong

Shanghai University of Finance and Economics - School of International Business Administration, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - School of Business and Management, Department of Economics; HKUST IEMS (Institute for Emerging Market Studies) and Shanghai University of Finance and Economics

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 31

29.

Credit Distribution and Exports: Microeconomic Evidence from China

HKUST IEMS Working Paper No. 2015-31

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 03 Nov 2015

Working Paper Series

Albert Park, Yao Amber Li and Chen Zhao

Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - School of Business and Management, Department of Economics; HKUST IEMS (Institute for Emerging Market Studies) and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST)

Downloads 40

30.

Geography, Ties, and Knowledge Flows: Evidence from Citations in Mathematics

HKUST IEMS Working Paper No. 2015-30

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 14 Sep 2015

Working Paper Series

Keith Head, Yao Amber Li and Asier Minondo

University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - School of Business and Management, Department of Economics; HKUST IEMS (Institute for Emerging Market Studies) and University of Deusto - Deusto Business School

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 53

31.

Asymmetric Information and Middleman Margins: An Experiment with Indian Potato Farmers

HKUST IEMS Working Paper No. 2015-29

Number of pages: 66 Posted: 06 Aug 2015

Working Paper Series

Sujata Visaria, Sandip Mitra, Dilip Mookherjee and Maximo Torero

Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST), Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, Boston University - Department of Economics and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 72

32.

Forward-Looking Exporters and Exchange Rate Pass-Through: A Micro-Level Investigation

HKUST IEMS Working Paper No. 2015-28

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 10 Jul 2015

Working Paper Series

Yao Amber Li and Chen Zhao

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - School of Business and Management, Department of Economics; HKUST IEMS (Institute for Emerging Market Studies) and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST)

Downloads 31

33.

Fiscal Incentives and Policy Choices of Local Governments, Evidence from China

HKUST IEMS Working Paper No. 2015-13

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 21 May 2015

Working Paper Series

Li Han and James Kai-Sing Kung

Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) - School of Humanities and Social Science and The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Business and Economics

Downloads 114

34.

Import Response to Exchange Rate Fluctuations: A Micro-Level Investigation

HKUST IEMS Working Paper No. 2015-27

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 20 May 2015

Working Paper Series

Yao Amber Li, Juanyi (Jenny) Xu and Chen Zhao

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - School of Business and Management, Department of Economics; HKUST IEMS (Institute for Emerging Market Studies), Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST)

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 34

35.

The Political Economy of State Capitalism and Shadow Banking in China

HKUST IEMS Working Paper No. 2015-25

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 20 May 2015

Working Paper Series

Kellee S. Tsai

Johns Hopkins University

Downloads 584

36.

Financing Small and Medium Enterprises in China: Recent Trends and Prospects Beyond Shadow Banking

HKUST IEMS Working Paper No. 2015-24

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 20 May 2015

Working Paper Series

Kellee S. Tsai

Johns Hopkins University

Downloads 479

37.

Global Technology Leadership: The Case of China

HKUST IEMS Working Paper No. 2015-11

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 19 May 2015 Last Revised: 17 Jul 2015

Working Paper Series

Can Huang and Naubahar Sharif

Zhejiang University - School of Management and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) - Division of Social Science

Downloads 78

38.

Growth, Pollution, and Life Expectancy: China from 1991-2012

HKUST IEMS Working Paper No. 2015-10

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 19 May 2015

Working Paper Series

Avraham Ebenstein, Maoyong Fan, Michael Greenstone, Guojun He, Peng Yin and Maigeng Zhou

Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Department of Economics, Ball State University - Department of Economics, University of Chicago - Department of Economics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis Treatment of Infectious Diseases - Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC) and Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis Treatment of Infectious Diseases - National Center for Chronic and Noncommunicable Disease Control and Prevention

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 106

39.

Promotion Incentives in the Public Sector: Evidence from Chinese Schools

HKUST IEMS Working Paper No. 2015-09

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 19 May 2015

Working Paper Series

Naureen Karachiwalla and Albert Park

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST)

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 45

40.

Permanent Income and Subjective Well-Being

HKUST IEMS Working Paper No. 2015-08

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 19 May 2015

Working Paper Series

Shu Cai and Albert Park

Jinan University and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST)

Downloads 42

41.

Does Foreign Bank Entry Affect Monetary Policy Effectiveness?: Exploring the Interest Rate Pass-Through Channel

HKUST IEMS Working Paper No. 2015-06

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 19 May 2015

Working Paper Series

Sasidaran Gopalan and Ramkishen S. Rajan

Institute for Emerging Market Studies and Institute for Advanced Study and LKYSPP-NUS

Downloads 96

42.

Does Foreign Bank Entry Contribute to Financial Depth?: Examining the Role of Income Thresholds

HKUST IEMS Working Paper No. 2015-05

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 19 May 2015

Working Paper Series

Sasidaran Gopalan

Institute for Emerging Market Studies and Institute for Advanced Study

Downloads 19

43.

How Does Foreign Bank Entry Affect Financial Inclusion in Emerging and Developing Economies?

HKUST IEMS Working Paper No. 2015-04

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 19 May 2015

Working Paper Series

Sasidaran Gopalan and Ramkishen S. Rajan

Institute for Emerging Market Studies and Institute for Advanced Study and LKYSPP-NUS

Downloads 134

44.

The Effect of Air Pollution on Mortality in China: Evidence from the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Forthcoming, HKUST IEMS Working Paper No. 2015-03

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 19 May 2015 Last Revised: 16 Nov 2015

Working Paper Series

Guojun He, Maoyong Fan and Maigeng Zhou

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Ball State University - Department of Economics and Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis Treatment of Infectious Diseases - National Center for Chronic and Noncommunicable Disease Control and Prevention

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 107

45.

Credit Constraints, Quality, and Export Prices: Theory and Evidence from China

HKUST IEMS Working Paper No. 2015-02

Number of pages: 71 Posted: 19 May 2015

Working Paper Series

Haichao Fan, Edwin L.-C. Lai and Yao Amber Li

Shanghai University of Finance and Economics - School of International Business Administration, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) - Department of Economics and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - School of Business and Management, Department of Economics; HKUST IEMS (Institute for Emerging Market Studies)

Downloads 32

46.

Financing Smallholder Agriculture: An Experiment with Agent-Intermediated Microloans in India

HKUST IEMS Working Paper No. 2015-23

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 19 May 2015

Working Paper Series

Pushkar Maitra, Sandip Mitra, Dilip Mookherjee, Alberto Motta and Sujata Visaria

Monash University - Department of Economics, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, Boston University - Department of Economics, UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST)

Downloads 24

47.

Unintended Negative Consequences of Rewards for Student Attendance: Results from a Field Experiment in Indian Classrooms

HKUST IEMS Working Paper No. 2015-22, NYU Wagner Research Paper No. 2607789

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 19 May 2015

Working Paper Series

Melody Manchi Chao, Rajeev H. Dehejia, Anirban Mukhopadhyay and Sujata Visaria

Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST), New York University (NYU) - Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST)

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 47

48.

The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Disruptions to Education, and the Returns to Schooling in Urban China

HKUST IEMS Working Paper No. 2015-21

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 19 May 2015

Working Paper Series

John Giles, Albert Park and Meiyan Wang

World Bank, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) and Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS)

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 277

49.

Board Reforms and Firm Value: Worldwide Evidence

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming, HKUST IEMS Working Paper No. 2015-20

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 19 May 2015 Last Revised: 15 Jul 2016

Accepted Paper Series

Larry Fauver, Mingyi Hung, Xi Li and Alvaro G. Taboada

University of Tennessee, Knoxville - Department of Finance, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST), University of Arkansas - Department of Finance and Mississippi State University

Downloads 880

50.

Political Volatility and Capital Markets: Evidence from Transition

HKUST IEMS Working Paper No. 2015-15

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 19 May 2015

Working Paper Series

Christopher A Hartwell

Kozminski University

Downloads 22