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The cultural origins of family firms 家族企业的文化起源
IF 2.8 2区 经济学
Journal of Comparative Economics Pub Date : 2025-01-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.jce.2024.12.003
Jian Xie , Song Yuan
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Economic effects of (non-)compliance with constitutions （不）遵守宪法的经济影响
IF 2.8 2区 经济学
Journal of Comparative Economics Pub Date : 2024-12-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.jce.2024.12.006
Anna Lewczuk, Katarzyna Metelska-Szaniawska
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Tit-for-tat in antidumping: How did China fight its antidumping wars with its trading partners? 在反倾销问题上针锋相对：中国是如何与贸易伙伴打反倾销战的？
IF 2.8 2区 经济学
Journal of Comparative Economics Pub Date : 2024-12-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.jce.2024.12.002
Wonkyung Lee , Hong Ma , Yuan Xu
{"title":"Tit-for-tat in antidumping: How did China fight its antidumping wars with its trading partners?","authors":"Wonkyung Lee ,&nbsp;Hong Ma ,&nbsp;Yuan Xu","doi":"10.1016/j.jce.2024.12.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jce.2024.12.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Existing studies have examined the determinants of antidumping measures in different countries. Much less attention has been paid to the role of high-frequency bilateral relations in imposing temporary trade barriers. Using quarterly data on antidumping cases from 1997Q1 to 2020Q4, this paper examines the bilateral relationship between China and its major trading partners in imposing antidumping. A bivariate vector autoregressive methodology is employed and Granger causality tests are carried out. We find that antidumping investigations against China by the US significantly lead to and predict the investigations against the US by China, suggesting that the US is the first mover and China is the follower that retaliates. In contrast, in bilateral relations between China and the European Union, Korea, or Japan, there is no evidence of significant causality in either direction. Furthermore, we find that China retaliates against the US both within and across industries. While China’s retaliatory measures have shown some effectiveness in terminating outstanding US investigations, this is not always the case. However, this tit-for-tat behavior does effectively deter future investigations by the US.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48183,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Comparative Economics","volume":"53 1","pages":"Pages 165-181"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143444920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The aggregate and distributional effects of immigration restrictions: The 1920s Quota Acts and the Great Black Migration 移民限制的总量和分配效应：20世纪20年代的配额法案和大黑人移民
IF 2.8 2区 经济学
Journal of Comparative Economics Pub Date : 2024-12-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.jce.2024.12.004
Bin Xie
{"title":"The aggregate and distributional effects of immigration restrictions: The 1920s Quota Acts and the Great Black Migration","authors":"Bin Xie","doi":"10.1016/j.jce.2024.12.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jce.2024.12.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Using county-level data and linked individual samples, this study explores the labor market impact of the immigration shock triggered by the US immigration quota system and its causal effect on the Great Black Migration. County-level analysis indicates that immigration restrictions did not affect average manufacturing wages and lowered the average occupational standings of US-born whites and immigrants. Analysis of linked individual samples reveals substantial internal migration and distributional effect caused by the immigration shock: migrants moving to counties more impacted by the shock experienced greater economic gains, while non-movers suffered greater losses. Notably, the negative immigration shock led to a marked increase in the migration of Black southerners to northern counties. Black migrants moving to more affected areas achieved higher occupational standings, increased literacy rates, and greater employment in urban manufacturing jobs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48183,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Comparative Economics","volume":"53 1","pages":"Pages 25-55"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143444979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Organizing regulatory structure and local air quality: Evidence from the environmental vertical management reform in China 组织监管结构与地方空气质量：来自中国环境垂直管理改革的证据
IF 2.8 2区 经济学
Journal of Comparative Economics Pub Date : 2024-12-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.jce.2024.12.001
Pei Li , Kaihao Liu , Yi Lu , Lu Peng
{"title":"Organizing regulatory structure and local air quality: Evidence from the environmental vertical management reform in China","authors":"Pei Li ,&nbsp;Kaihao Liu ,&nbsp;Yi Lu ,&nbsp;Lu Peng","doi":"10.1016/j.jce.2024.12.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jce.2024.12.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The effectiveness of environmental policies is often compromised by weak enforcement due to conflicts between local and national interests. We examine a novel institutional reform in China that centralizes the management authority of grassroots environmental bureaus to address the issue of local capture. By analyzing the staggered roll-out of this reform, we find that the Air Quality Index significantly decreased by 25.1%. We attribute this improvement to a reduction in the capture of front-line environmental regulators by local interest groups, alignment of interests between local regulators and their upper-level administrators, and increased efforts for environmental protection by local governments in a more independent and impartial regulatory environment. These results highlight the effectiveness of distributing management authority to different administrative levels, as it reshapes the incentives for local environmental regulators, strengthens enforcement efficiency, and facilitates the achievement of policy objectives.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48183,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Comparative Economics","volume":"53 1","pages":"Pages 139-164"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143444984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Foreign-assisted infrastructure and local employment: Evidence from China's aid to Africa 外国援助的基础设施与当地就业：来自中国对非洲援助的证据
IF 2.8 2区 经济学
Journal of Comparative Economics Pub Date : 2024-12-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.jce.2024.11.003
Jiafu An , Shiqi Guo , Haicheng Jiang
{"title":"Foreign-assisted infrastructure and local employment: Evidence from China's aid to Africa","authors":"Jiafu An ,&nbsp;Shiqi Guo ,&nbsp;Haicheng Jiang","doi":"10.1016/j.jce.2024.11.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jce.2024.11.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines the impact of Chinese infrastructure aid on local employment across ten African countries, surveying over 500,000 individuals from 2000 to 2014. Utilizing variations in proximity to aid projects and the timing of project construction relative to local surveys reveals that Chinese aid increases local employment by two percentage points in areas near project sites compared to those awaiting project commencement, contrasting with regions without such aid. Employment rises with the onset of construction, primarily benefiting individuals with lower educational attainment, and persists post-completion, sustained by the migration and employment of skilled workers. Various infrastructure projects temporarily boost local employment, with long-term benefits particularly pronounced for projects in education, healthcare, and water and power utilities. Cross-sectoral and spatial spillover effects are also identified, with results remaining robust after accounting for additional local development factors.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48183,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Comparative Economics","volume":"53 1","pages":"Pages 118-138"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143444983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Gendered language and gendered violence 性别语言和性别暴力
IF 2.8 2区 经济学
Journal of Comparative Economics Pub Date : 2024-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jce.2024.08.008
Lewis Davis , Astghik Mavisakalyan , Clas Weber
{"title":"Gendered language and gendered violence","authors":"Lewis Davis ,&nbsp;Astghik Mavisakalyan ,&nbsp;Clas Weber","doi":"10.1016/j.jce.2024.08.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jce.2024.08.008","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study establishes the influence of sex-based grammatical gender on gendered violence. We demonstrate a statistically significant relationship between speaking a gendered language and the incidence of intimate partner violence in a cross-section of countries. Motivated by this evidence, we conduct an individual-level analysis of the effect of speaking a gendered language on beliefs about the justifiability of intimate partner violence, controlling for a wide variety of individual level socioeconomic characteristics as well as country, religion, language family and ethnicity fixed effects. Speaking a gendered language is associated with the belief that intimate partner violence is justifiable. Our results are consistent with complementarity between the cultural and cognitive effects of language on the attitudes to intimate partner violence.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48183,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Comparative Economics","volume":"52 4","pages":"Pages 755-772"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143136042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Measuring the attitude towards a European public budget: A cross-country experiment 衡量对欧洲公共预算的态度：一项跨国实验
IF 2.8 2区 经济学
Journal of Comparative Economics Pub Date : 2024-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jce.2024.08.003
Marco Catola , Pietro Guarnieri , Veronica Pizziol , Chiara Rapallini
{"title":"Measuring the attitude towards a European public budget: A cross-country experiment","authors":"Marco Catola ,&nbsp;Pietro Guarnieri ,&nbsp;Veronica Pizziol ,&nbsp;Chiara Rapallini","doi":"10.1016/j.jce.2024.08.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jce.2024.08.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We use a multilevel public goods game to investigate attitudes towards national public budgets and a European public budget in six Member States of the European Union: Italy, Germany, France, The Netherlands, Poland, and Portugal. We test to what extent propensities to contribute to public goods differ across countries. Using two efficiency treatments, we also test whether each country group adjusts its contribution when the relative efficiency of the public goods changes. We find no differences across countries in the propensity to contribute to either public budget. Moreover, all country groups level up their contribution to the European public good following an increase in its relative efficiency. We also devise a questionnaire to assess the impact of a sense of identity on contribution decisions and to control for the impact of COVID-19 and the current war in Ukraine on country and EU perceptions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48183,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Comparative Economics","volume":"52 4","pages":"Pages 963-979"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143136127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Canal and trade: Transportation infrastructure and market integration in China, 1780–1911 运河与贸易：中国的运输基础设施与市场整合，1780-1911
IF 2.8 2区 经济学
Journal of Comparative Economics Pub Date : 2024-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jce.2024.08.006
Shuo Chen , Jianan Li , Qin Yao
{"title":"Canal and trade: Transportation infrastructure and market integration in China, 1780–1911","authors":"Shuo Chen ,&nbsp;Jianan Li ,&nbsp;Qin Yao","doi":"10.1016/j.jce.2024.08.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jce.2024.08.006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper explores the role of transportation infrastructure in pre-modern economic development by investigating the historical canal's closure. We quantify the effects of closing China's Grand Canal in 1826 by disastrous flooding, the world's largest and oldest manmade waterway, on market integration. We use archived grain prices from 1780 to 1911 and find that the canal's closure led to a 30% decline in market integration; this impact lasted for more than 70 years. Our results are robust while addressing the alternative measures of market integration, potential spillovers from treated groups to control groups, influences of forced openness, and potential measurement errors and standard error adjustments. We find evidence consistent with increasing transportation costs and information friction as the main potential mechanisms. Our findings highlight the importance of transportation infrastructure in reducing arbitrage costs and provide new evidence which is important to explain the process of the Great Divergence between China and Europe.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48183,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Comparative Economics","volume":"52 4","pages":"Pages 793-812"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143136044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The impact of anti-corruption on mental health: Evidence from China 反腐对心理健康的影响：来自中国的证据
IF 2.8 2区 经济学
Journal of Comparative Economics Pub Date : 2024-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jce.2024.07.003
Jiawei Fu , Congyi Zhou
{"title":"The impact of anti-corruption on mental health: Evidence from China","authors":"Jiawei Fu ,&nbsp;Congyi Zhou","doi":"10.1016/j.jce.2024.07.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jce.2024.07.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Mental health directly influences individuals’ behaviors and decision-making processes, particularly for government officials grappling with mental health issues. This paper utilizes field data from China’s anti-corruption campaign to evaluate the campaign’s impact on mental health. Our findings indicate that depressive symptoms, as measured by CES-D8 scores, have risen significantly among government employees by 0.4 units per 100 increase in corruption investigation cases. This result suggests that the anti-corruption campaign within a year could potentially result in an average increase of 29% in depressive symptoms among government employees. Interestingly, no comparable effect was found among the general Chinese population. This discrepancy could be attributed to the transformative impact of the anti-corruption campaign on the internal governmental work environment, engendering stress among its employees.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48183,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Comparative Economics","volume":"52 4","pages":"Pages 925-950"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143136129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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