China Economic Review

1990 - 2026

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Volume 95, issue C, 2026

China's urban agglomerations: Surging from industrial-led to innovation-driven

Jie Tang and Huiwen Li

Who benefits from compulsory education? Evidence from the average and heterogeneous effects on migrant welfare in China

Yucheng Sun, Meizhen Li, Zhewen Pan and Xianbo Zhou

Socioeconomic status and inequalities in early development of non-cognitive skills: Evidence from China

Dongqin Wang, Minghong Shen and Xiaogang Wu

Booming costs, boozing habits: How soaring housing prices drive smoking and drinking in China

Jiao Wang, Dianzhang Zou, Yi Chen and Jingwen Xue

Judicial fairness perception and corporate innovation: Evidence from entrepreneur survey in China

Jingyuan Qiao, Kai Wu and Donghui Li

Does policy uncertainty affect firms' exchange rate exposure? Evidence from China11We are grateful for the insightful comments of Iftekhar Hasan, Iikka Korhonen, Zhitao Lin and Yaqi Wang for their valuable suggestions. We are also grateful for the excellent comments from participants at seminars at Bank of Finland, Jinan University, Capital University of Economics and Business, Wuhan University, and Central University of Finance and Economics, as well as the EFMA 2023 Annual Conference (Cardiff). This research is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (72473146, 72101267), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, the Research Funds of Renmin University of China (24XNN005). All remaining errors are ours

Qing He, Bailin Liang and Ce Zhang

Audiovisual pesticide label: A digital expert to promote accurate pesticide use

Juhui Chen, Junfei Bai, Xi Lu, Yinghui Ma and Meng Zhou

Supply network and firm innovation: Evidence from China

Xiao Deng, Shi-Ting He, Xinrui Lin and Junjie Tang

Valuation adjustment mechanisms in venture capital and entrepreneurial firms' performance

Yi Jiang, Zelong Tan and Ge Yang

Transnational digital infrastructure and scientific collaboration: Evidence from the Asia Africa Europe-1 (AAE-1) submarine cable

Han Li and Yuan Gao

Valuation adjustment mechanisms and acquirer’s innovation under the new company law reform: Evidence from China

Peng Zhang, Die Hu and Linjue Du

The impact of a large-scale chronic disease prevention and control program on the health benefits of older adults: Evidence from a natural experiment in China

Qingshan Ma, Yuqing Han, Mingcong Chen, Feng Hu and Haiyan Zhou

Targeting mental wellness: Does China's multifaceted poverty alleviation policy bear fruit?

Dezhuang Hu and Tang Li

Action beyond the sky high: Capital structure adjustment speed of Chinese space firms

Fei Guo, Lei Xu, Bin Li, Jiawei Sun and Zixuan Dai

The dark side of capital flexibility: Subscribed capital system reform and creditor interests in China

Weidi Chai, Chunyu Zhang, Yongmei Cui and Xiaohong Ma

Bankruptcy resolution and corporate debt maturity

Zijun Cheng, Jiayin Hu, Michael Beichen Huang and Shijie Zhao

The lifespan of small and medium-sized enterprises in China: Stylized facts and influencing factors

Songrui Liu, Xiaokun Yu, Wenkang Zhang and Zhongwen Zhang

Why do Chinese SMEs avoid formal employment? Political connections and unequal access to formalization benefits11Corresponding author is Ketong Zhu. We are grateful to the editors of this special issue and the anonymous referees for their insightful suggestions. We thank Zijun Cheng, Bing Lu, Shuanghe Shang, Wenkai Sun, Zhongwen Zhang, Xiaobo Zhang and participants in 24th China Economics Annual Conference for their valuable feedback. We gratefully acknowledge the financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (#72203252, #72342031, and #42293273), the Science Foundation of China University of Petroleum, Beijing (No. 2462025YJRC029), and the Program for Innovation Research at the Central University of Finance and Economics. We thank the data support from the Center for Enterprise Research of Peking University. The authors are listed alphabetically according to the last names. Authors equally share the first authorship. All errors are ours

Ruochen Dai, Yue Feng, Chengfang Liu, Langrui Li, Lina Zhang and Ketong Zhu

Can board ESG oversight promote corporate international expansion? Evidence from Chinese manufacturing firms

Qilin Cao, Muxing Li, Wenke Wang and Xiaoke Wu

Spillover effects of fertility on married women's employment: Evidence from China

Chang Hong Li and Min Qiang Zhao

Waterway infrastructure, shipping endowment and regional economic geography: Evidence from the operation of the three gorges dam

Yuanbo Liang, Jingyang Fu, Xiao Teng and Xi Qu

Patent quality and patentability requirements: Evidence from the third amendment to the Chinese Patent Law

Teng Huang and Cheryl Xiaoning Long

Does high-speed rail development impact online healthcare demand? Evidence from a large medical platform in China

Jiali Tang, Duo Xu and Hongqiao Fu

Tax reduction, wage bargaining, and income equality: Evidence from China's SMEs

Wenkai Sun, Wenjing Wang, Siyuan Tang and Zhong Zhao

Air pollution, technology seeking and firms' cross-border M&A

Shiyi Chen, Wenjie Liu and Huanhuan Wang

The impact of environmental concern on cross-regional investment: Evidence from Chinese new energy enterprises

Qilin Mao and Chongyang Guo

Volume 94, issue PC, 2025

Introduction to the special issue in honor of Martin Ravallion: Inequality, vulnerability and the middle-income trap

Shaohua Chen and Dominique van de Walle

FinTech and consumption resilience to uncertainty shocks: Evidence from digital wealth management in China

Jialin Liu, Lin Li, Dong Lu and Meihe E.

Measuring MPC heterogeneity in China: Insights from household registration reform

Yawen Gao, Lun Li and Xin Liang

Nonlinearities in the institutions-growth relationship in a dynamic panel data framework: Evidence from China’s provinces

Linda Glawe

A generative artificial intelligence approach to tracking Chinese Mainland's housing market sentiment using social media data

Zhang Wu, Michael Cheng, Philip Ng and Yixuan Wang

Cognitive ability, non-cognitive ability and occupational attainment in China

Xi Chen and Ziqi Wang

The real effect of China's narrative Central Bank Communication

Liangyuan Chen, Jianhao Lin, Xia Wang and Zixiang Zhu

The impact of household debt on the wealth distribution and inequality in China

Xuanyu Zhang and Xiaoyun Fan

Demolition, housing lock-in, and labor migration

Yan Zhang, Shuang Ma and Ding Li

Invoicing currency and settlement currency: An empirical study and implications for RMB internationalization

Tao Liu, Xiaosong Wang and Wing Thye Woo

Climate risk and household stock market participation

Yong Li, Kun Mao, Hongwu Gan and Yang Zhou

Climbing the social ladder: Clans and intergenerational mobility in China

Shuai Zhao and Linke Hou

Volume 94, issue PB, 2025

The costs of duty exemptions in processing trade

Jianpeng Deng and Zi Wang

The impact of intelligent automation on subjective well-being and job satisfaction: A comparison between standard and nonstandard employment

Hongye Sun and Gongjing Gao

Global monetary policy shocks and the adaptation of supply chains

Chang Li, Wei Li and Yuhui Shao

Political career incentives and multitasking trade-off: Evidence from setting performance targets in Chinese cities

Zhouling Bai, Pan Zhang and Hongtao Yi

Urban fragmentation and innovation collaboration: Evidence from China

Fanghao Chen, Ruichi Xiong and Shan Zhao

Robots and cost of equity: Evidence from China

Chao He, Zhongsheng Zhou, Fangfang Jian and Yuhan Qiu

The effect of broadband internet on children's weight: Evidence from China

Weisong Cheng and Hao Xu

Does party organization construction improve chinese banks' stability? Evidence from a new textual index

Lu Wei, Mingye Wei, Yifei Wu and Zhongbo Jing

Political budget cycles, government size, and the allocation of public funds: Evidence from prefectures in China

Jie Xiao, Qinghua Zhang, Brian Knight and Liutang Gong

Learning from winning firms: Government innovation procurement and peer innovation efficiency

Hui Jiang, Yu Liu and Junqi Dong

Centralized procurement authority and corporate innovation

Xiao Jia, Xiaoxi Li, Boluo Liu and Nan Shao

The nexus between digital finance and household consumption-based carbon emissions: Evidence from China

Yong Yu, Chenzhe Zhai, Debao Hu and Zicun Wang

How does non-financial firms' systemic risk affect their credit constraints? Evidence from China

Xiao-Lin Li, Wentian Qu and Guojing Qiu

Pathway to prosperity or disparity?: The impact of regional IT penetration on common wealth

Peinan Ji, Linke Guo, Lianchao Yu and Xiangbin Yan

Ownership structure, power separation and the supervisory effectiveness of independent director system

Sheng Hua and Zheng Ji

The employment effects of VAT rebate efficiency: Evidence from SMEs in China

Bing Lu, Hong Ma, Jiashu Hu and Yuan Xu

Unintended negative impact of environmental regulation on public safety: Evidence from China

Yichuan Zhang, Jiezhong Shen and Tianyun Zhu

Long-term care insurance policy and the development of elderly care enterprises in China

Tianli Yang and Zhong Zhao

Maturity mismatch and disinvestment as transmission mechanisms: Linking economic policy uncertainty to firm performance

Lifang Hu

Is government subsidy efficient? Evidence from SMEs' automation in China

Xueling Yan, Shule Yu and Xing Zheng

Econometric evaluation of the China–US trade war effects

Zongwu Cai and Jinyan Li

Narrative monetary policy expectation in China

Dandan Zhu, Xiangdong Wang and Yifan Zhang

Recovering after natural disasters: A stabilizing role of the government

Shu Liu and Yonghao Xu

Flood disasters, firm total factor productivity and adaptation behaviors

Peiting Dong and Xin Yao

The border effect of industrial development in China

Siru Chen, Guangjun Shen and Li Zhang

Founder control and breakthrough innovation: Evidence from high-tech firms in China

Zi-Qi Zhang, Bao-Jun Tang, Zhi Su and Yongji Zhang

Adverse sentiments in the American media houses towards the Belt & Road Initiative (BRI): An analysis of the taxonomy, trend, texture, and tendency

Tariq H. Malik and Jack W. Hou

Background ambiguity and intertemporal choice: An experimental study on the effect of summer vacation

Miao Jin, Jian Li, Juanjuan Meng and Jingwei Sun

Global value chain position, industrial policy, and bank loan allocation: Evidence from Chinese manufacturing firms

ShiYi Liu, HaiYue Liu and WeiKe Li

Can digital transformation expand the boundaries of the earnings potential of commercial banks? Evidence from China

Ning Zhu, Biyin Ma, Bing Wang, Xuan Tang and Zhiqian Yu

Automation and household conflict: How industrial robots reduce domestic violence risk

Weibing Li, Mingyang Li and Siyuan Chen

A measure of industrial clustering: Considering relatedness and scale

Jianqing Ruan and Xiaobo Zhang

The paradox of assistance: Chinese aid in Africa and economic expectations

Jialiang Zhu, Philip Akrofi Atitianti, Michael Appiah-Kubi and Joseph Amoah

The gig economy and household financial vulnerability

Gecheng Yuan, Weijie Lu, Xinyi Wu and Li Zhou

Improving education levels of BRI participating economies: Evidence from the Education Action Plan for the Belt and Road Initiative

Yue Pu, Xinyi Zeng and Tao Chen

Next stop innovation: Subway stations opening and spatial agglomeration of high-tech enterprises

Meng Shen, Hongfu Li, Liyuan Ma and Jie Wu

Social norms alleviate the disadvantaged positions of elderly people in charity markets

Xinrui Wu, Ziming Liu and Shuyi Feng

The role of experience in climate adaptation: Evidence from a field experiment in China

Yihong Ding, Elizabeth Robinson and Kelvin Balcombe

Volume 94, issue PA, 2025

Socially appropriate intervention: A cross-country investigation of third-party norm enforcement

Jichuan Zong, Eelke de Jong, Jianying Qiu and Jing Li

A proposed tax reform for China: Enhancing consumption and pension sustainability

Zhaoyong Chen, David Leung and Joseph Mai

How air pollution affects innovation value in China urban area?

Zhuo Chen and Kunlun Wang

The impact of negative online ratings on physician effort to improve communication: Evidence from China

Zifan Li and Xuezheng Qin

Does education affect fertility timing? Evidence from Taiwan

Yichen Shen

Climate change, electricity reliability, and energy structure: County-level evidence from China

Mingwei Yu, Fang Xia, Li Su and Feng Song

The mitigating effects of blockchain adoption on supply chain financing disruptions under crises: Evidence from China

Haolin Li, Sirui Cheng, Xiuping Hua and Yong Wang

Financial liberalization and capital allocation in China

Zhewei Zhang, Zhiwei Xu and Fangxing Zhou

Has the county-to-district reform enhanced entrepreneurial activity? Evidence from emerging cities in China

Meiling Kang, Pengkun Deng and Zhongkuang Zhao

Trade policy uncertainty and agricultural specialization: Evidence from rural household in China

Guo Dongmei, Guo Tao, Li Bing and Xie Chaoping

Private school, off-campus academic class and public school district housing premium: Evidence from a natural experiment in Hangzhou, China

Han Feng, Haimin Chen and Ke Shi

Identifying waste leakage: Behavioral responses to China’s municipal solid waste classification plan

Lue Zhan, Di Xiang and Chad Lawley

Long-term direct and spillover effects of early childhood immunization

Yongming Luo and Liqiu Zhao

The limits to growth in the AI-driven economy

Yao Hou, Jinglei Huang, Danxia Xie and Weidi Zhou

Centuries of memory: Historical disasters and modern household savings

Dongmin Yao, Aohan Xu, Shiyu Zhang and Shuguang Yu

Does food recall strategy have a positive or negative effect on trust repair? Moderation analysis based on trust violation types and trust disposition

Xiaoyan Wang, Jianyou Fu, Yixing Tian and Honghua Chen

Quantifying the distributional effects of urbanization and migration in China

Wei Tang and Lili Wang

The impact of health insurance on informal care: Evidence from China's urban-rural basic health insurance consolidation

Zhuang Hao, Renxin Bian and Yuze Wang

Does digital finance affect energy consumption structure upgrading? Evidence from Chinese rural households

Debao Hu, Yutian Lei, Chenzhe Zhai and Jiaxin Liu

Self-employment and co-villager networks of internal migrants in China

Ying Deng, Xiangjun Ma and Xin Zhao

The time-varying zone-like and asymmetric preference of central banks: Evidence from China

Chuanglian Chen, Xiaobin Liu, Jun Yu and Tao Zeng

Valuing reform: How China's stock connect programs correct firm mispricing

Yimin Shan and Yang Chen

Equity diversification as a catalyst for Artificial Intelligence innovation: Evidence from Chinese state-owned enterprises

Zhi Su, Chen Zhao, Ying Li and Zhimeng Sun

The impact of National Volume-Based Procurement policy on healthcare expenditure and provider behavior in China

Yiru Wang, Tianjun Li, Xiangshi Liu and Wenbin Zang

Monetary policy in China: High-frequency shocks and the signaling effects

Qing Liu, Wenlan Luo and Qiaoqin Xiong

Budget rollover and year-end spending in China: evidence from public procurement contracts

Yuchen Guo and Pinghan Liang

Internal finance, financial constraint, and pollution emissions: Evidence from China

Mathilde Maurel, Thomas Pernet and Zhao Ruili

The impact of the host country's imports of Chinese digital products on carbon decoupling status

Yibing Ding, Xiaoou Zhang, Ziwei Liu and Yining Sun

How geographical indication products impact agricultural economic resilience: Evidence from China

Kaicheng Liao, Chunyan Li and Lei Jiang

The effect of family size on intergenerational support for elderly parents and their life expectancy: Evidence from China’s “Later, Longer, Fewer” campaign

Cynthia Bansak, Eva Dziadula and Sophie Xuefei Wang

Limited liability, piercing the corporate veil and pollution abatement: Evidence from China

Qiyangfan Feng and Ziyue Zhang

How government fiscal decentralization shapes bank competition dynamics: City-level evidence from China

Chenzi Yang, Qinru Si, Xiaoyan Wang and Jinwei Li

Trade liberalization and manufacturing robot adoption: Evidence from Chinese free trade agreements

Fei Nie, Xiaoli Etienne, Jian Li and Hualu Hu

Inside job, Chinese style: Suspicious use of public funds under fiscal pressure

Qun Bao, Rui Huang, Guoqin Pan and Laixun Zhao

The missing rich households and wealth polarization in 21st century China

Yangcheng Yu, Shi Li and Qinghai Li

Excellent human capital or institution? Evidence from judicial reform of the judge quota system in China

Hongli Chu, Ivan Y. Sun and Jianxiong Wang

Through trials and hardships: Internal migration and locus of control among Chinese entrepreneurs

Xiaodong Zheng, Jingru Ren and Yanran Zhou