Table 1.
Comparison of the characteristics of the cities in the Yangtze River Delta region in terms of opening ports and trading.
Fig 1.
Kernel density map of the quality of the urban business credit environment.
Table 2.
Composition of indicators of the China City business credit environment index (CEI).
Table 3.
The opening of ports and commerce in the late Qing Dynasty and the business credit environment: Results of the benchmark model estimation.
Table 4.
The opening of ports and commerce and the business credit environment in the late Qing Dynasty: Variability in the timing of port openings.
Table 5.
The opening of ports and commerce and the business credit environment in the late Qing Dynasty: Differential political status.
Table 6.
The opening of ports and commerce and the commercial credit environment in the late Qing dynasty: Differences in the power of the great powers.