Includes bibliographical references.

Market socialism with "Chinese characteristics" / Jongmoo J. Choi, Michael R. Powers, Xiaotian Tina Zhang -- The metaphysical foundations of political economy in China and the west / Robert Shaw -- A state-stewardship view on executive compensation / Hao Liang, Luc Renneboog, Sunny Li Sun -- Netizens and private monitoring in Chinese banking / W. Travis Selmier, II -- CEO promotion, relative performance measures and institutions in an emerging market: evidence from China's listed state-owned enterprise / Fang Hu, Yahua Zhang -- Does government control always reduce firm value? theory and evidence from China / Ping He, Kun Wang, Xing Xiao -- Internal control, corporate life cycle and firm performance / Haiyan Zhou, Hanwen Chen, Zhirong Cheng -- The effect of privatization processes and the split-share structure reform on the market reaction to the announcements of transitional non-traditional shares / Aysun Ficici, Bo Fan, C. Bu<U+0308>lent Aybar, Lingling Wang -- Regulatory risks and strategic controls in the global financial center of China / Artie Ng, Wallace Tang -- Bank internationalisation: an examination of the role of government and home institutions in emerging economies / Agyenim Boateng, Weijing He, Patrick Ring -- Climate change, catastrophe risk, and government stimulation of the insurance market: a study of transitional china / Qihao He -- Determinants and fluctuations of China's exchange rate policy: national interests and decision-making processes / Falin Zhang -- Efficiency of regulated and unregulated forex markets: an analysis of onshore and offshore renminbi forward markets / Zsuzsa R. Huszar, Ruth S.k. Tan, Weina Zhang -- Do sectoral and locational factors of foreign direct investment from emerging countries matter for firm performance? the case of Korean firms FDI in China's service sector / Seong-Bong Lee, Masaaki Kotabe, Doohoi Heo, Byung Jin Kang, Albert Yoon.

Volume 17 of International Finance Review focuses on a variety of issues relating to the political economy of Chinese finance, including: the pattern of government ownership and control of Chinese firms; the role of government in corporate governance of industrial and financial firms; the interaction of culture, law and institutions in Chinese governance systems; corporate social responsibility, stakeholders and sustainable growth; the effect of political connections on corporate performance and society; privatization, IPOs, exchange listing and firm valuation; the role of government in banking and financial markets; practice of corporate risk management and insurance; foreign-exchange policy and its effect on firms and markets; foreign direct and portfolio investments in China; international investments and operations of Chinese firms; Chinese economic relations with the US and other countries.

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