China
China Is Using Its Market Power To Influence Foreign Policymaking
Audrye Wong writes that China is able to use its market power to pressure foreign companies and business leaders—perhaps most notably Tesla CEO Elon Musk—to lobby on its behalf. The practice raises questions about foreign influence in American and European policymaking and the disproportionate clout of business and oligarchic interests.
China’s Regulatory Balancing Act
The following is an excerpt from Angela Zhang's recent book, High Wire, out at Oxford University Press. Please join the Stigler Center on April 3 at 6:30-7:30 pm CT for a conversation with Zhang, where she'll discuss High Wire with Financial Times' China Technology Correspondent Eleanor Olcott. You can register for the livestream of the event here.
Competition Regulation of Digital Platforms in China
Liyang Hou investigates the recent antitrust enforcement in China’s digital sector and highlights how formalistic dominance assessments and merger reviews have shaped the country’s approach to regulating its platform economy.
How Political Speech Restrictions Spill Over Into Financial Analysis
A new study by Utpal Bhattacharya, Tse-Chun Lin, and Janghoon Shon finds that Hong Kong's 2020 National Security Law led local financial analysts to...
The Decay of Hong Kong’s Liberal Political Economy
The Chinese Communist Party drastically reduced Hong Kong’s autonomy in 2020 with a national security law and has cracked down on resistance ever since. The consequences have left its people culturally and economically poorer, writes Casey Moser.
Event Notes: “China’s Political Economy” in Review
The Stigler Center's "China Political Economy" webinar series returns Thursday, February 9. Here's a reminder of what we covered in our first four panels...
Event Notes: China’s Leadership Transition and What It Means for Its Economy
On Oct. 22, Chinese President Xi Jinping solidified power and an unprecedented third term with the conclusion of the Chinese Communist Party’s 20th National...
Event Notes: How Will China Move on from the Covid-19 Pandemic?
Countries around the world have overseen wide-ranging public health responses to the Covid-19 pandemic. On June 10, the Stigler Center hosted a panel of...
How Does Party-State Capitalism In China Interact With Global Capitalism?
Excerpted from The China Questions 2: Critical Insights Into Us-China Relations, edited by Maria Adele Carrai, Jennifer Rudolph, and Michael Szonyi, published by Harvard...
How Should Developing Countries Deal With Inflation? A Q&A With Raghuram Rajan
Former central banker Raghuram Rajan speaks to ProMarket about how sources and remedies for inflation differ from the US in developing countries such as...
