Institutional Reform and Economic Growth of China: 40-year Progress Toward Marketization

Gang Fan (), Guangrong Ma () and Xiaolu Wang ()
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Gang Fan: Peking University HSBC Business School
Guangrong Ma: School of Finance and China Financial Policy Research Center, Renmin University of China
Xiaolu Wang: National Economic Research Institute

Acta Oeconomica, 2019, vol. 69, issue supplement1, 7-20

Abstract: China has persevered its market-oriented economic transition since 1978. In this paper, we use the provincial-level NERI Index of Marketization from 1997 to 2014 and a panel data model to investigate the quantitative contribution of market-oriented reforms to China’s total factor productivity (TFP) and economic growth. Our results indicate that marketization reforms contributed 1.3 percentage points to China’s annual economic growth rate and accounted for 35 percent of the increase in TFP. This means that the institutional reforms significantly improved resource allocation. However, economic transition in China has not yet been completed and sustainability of future growth will depend on further market-oriented reforms.

Keywords: marketization; institutional reforms; economic transition; growth; total factor productivity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O57 P24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
Note: This research was supported by the Fundamental Research Founds for the Central Universities and the Research Funds of Renmin University of China (No. 18 XNQ004).
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