Ping Lin

TL;DR: This paper found that stronger creditor rights tend to promote greater bank risk-taking and increase the likelihood of financial crisis, while the benefits of information sharing among creditors appear to be universally positive.

TL;DR: This paper found that FDI can benefit innovation activity in the host country via spillover channels such as reverse engineering, skilled labor turnover, demonstration effects, and supplier-customer relationships.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the effects of both borrower and lender competition as well as information sharing via credit bureaus/registries on corruption in bank lending, and found strong evidence that both banking competition and information sharing reduce lending corruption, and that information sharing also helps enhance the positive effect of competition.

TL;DR: This article used a unique World Bank survey of 1,088 private manufacturing firms from 18 Chinese cities over the period 2000 to 2002 to empirically examine the roles of managerial incentives and CEO characteristics in a firm's innovation activities.

TL;DR: The authors used a unique World Bank survey of 1088 private manufacturing firms from 18 Chinese cities over the period 2000-2002 to empirically examine the roles of managerial incentives and CEO characteristics in a firm's innovation activities.