This paper investigates the role of personal relationships for doing business in the Greater Pearl River Delta, China (GPRD). First, it discusses the interplay of formal and informal (relationship-based) institutions based on institutional economics....

In Taiwan, since the early 2000s the growth rate of real wages has been very low and has been even negative for high-skilled workers. This paper tries to shed new light on the potential causes of this puzzling development with a comparison to South...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 95: Since January 2014 China and the European Union (EU) have been negotiating a comprehensive bilateral investment agreement. In their paper Frank Bickenbach and Wan-Hsin Liu (Kiel Institute) and Guoxue Li from (Chinese Academy...

Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) into the European Union (EU) has increased substantially over the last decade. Whereas the EU generally welcomes inward FDI, FDI from China has been often accompanied by concerns. In view of these developments,...

This paper investigates the levels and the recent development of the spatial concentration as well as the co-agglomeration of the innovation activities (R&D inputs as well as outputs) from industrial innovators (medium sized and large enterprises)...

This paper describes the Chinese economic and institutional reform process as a gradual transition of an informal, relation-based governance system into a more formal and rule-based governance system. The consequences of macro-level institutional...

Over the past decade the scale of higher education in China has expanded substantially. Regional development policies attempted to make use of the scale expansion as a tool to reduce the inequality of higher education among different regions with...

Over the past decade the scale of higher education in China has expanded substantially. Regional development policies have attempted to make use of scale expansion as a tool to reduce inequality of higher education among regions with different...

This chapter analyses an original firm-level dataset collected by our own Hong Kong (HK) Company Survey 2007 to investigate agility patterns applied by HK companies in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) in organising relations to their producers in the PRD...