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Capital Market Development: China and Asia

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Nov 2022

This paper studies entrepreneurship and the creation of new firms through the lens of serial entrepreneurs, i.e., entrepreneurs who establish more than one firm. Drawing on data on the universe of all firms in China, we document key facts about serial entrepreneurs and how they differ from non-seria...
Keywords: Serial Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship, Capital Distortions, Sector Choice
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Capital Market Development: China and Asia

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Oct 2022

By comparing uncollateralized business loans made by a big tech lending program with conventional bank loans, we find that big tech loans tend to be smaller and have higher interest rates and that borrowers of big tech loans tend to repay far before maturity and borrow more frequently. This lending ...
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Capital Market Development: China and Asia

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Sep 2022

We empirically characterize how China is internationalizing the Renminbi by selectively opening up its domestic bond market to foreign investors and propose a dynamic reputation model to explain this internationalization strategy. The Chinese government deliberately controlled the entry of foreign i...
Keywords: International Currency, Reserve Currency Competition, Exorbitant Privilege, Safe Assets, Reputation,
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Capital Market Development: China and Asia

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Aug 2022

Containing the COVID-19 pandemic by non-pharmacological interventions is costly. Using high-frequency, city-to-city truck flow data, this paper estimates the economic cost of lockdown in China, a stringent but effective policy. By comparing the truck flow change in the cities with and without lockdo...
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Capital Market Development: China and Asia

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Jul 2022

We study the impact of a national road construction program that brought access to previously unconnected pincodes in India, on stock market participation. Using a unique dataset on the trading behavior of over 13 million individuals, we find that construction of new feeder roads to a pincode increa...
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