China Economic Review

1990 - 2026

Current editor(s): B.M. Fleisher, K. X. D. Huang, M.E. Lovely, Y. Wen, X. Zhang and X. Zhu

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Volume 97, issue C, 2026

How digital firms shape innovation networks: Evidence from corporate patent citations

Zhi Su, Jiahao Tang and Hongling Guan

China and the world economy: Pathways of resilience, innovation, and transformation

Tariq H. Malik, Xiangjun Ma and Jack Hou

Early-life adversity and e-commerce adoption in old age: Evidence from China’s Great Famine

Xiaohao Huang and Lixin Tang

Depth, trade, and welfare analysis of the CPTPP and RCEP: Does deepening RCEP to CPTPP standards make a difference?

Kumuthini Sivathas

Information-based resilience: Credit line disclosure as strategic response to natural disasters

Lulu Pan and Mengmeng Xu

Firm-government social exchange: Are venture firms more charitable after receiving government subsidy?

Wei Liu, Wen Helena Li, Jing Yu Yang and Liang Wen

Merchant guild culture and corporate violations: Evidence from China

Na Chen

The origin of land preference culture: Land scarcity in history and household real estate investment today

Zhenyu Lin, Zhe Wang, Kai Xie and Huan Yang

Transparency matters: Public vs. non-public use of the counter-cyclical factor and renminbi exchange rate volatility

Yike Sun, Yimin Wu, Yoshihiro Kitamura and Zuojun Fan

Diverse roots and thriving ventures: Unveil the impact of cultural diversity on China’s entrepreneurship development

Wanting Xu, Shuai Shi and Ruiyang Wang

Online entertainment and exports: Evidence from a Chinese video game

Tianyu Wang, Lei Li, Feng Li and Bocong Liu

Innovation at crossroads: The effect of merger and acquisition on inventors’ creativity

Xiaohua Bao, Wen Ruan, Yaning Wei and Wentao Wu

From farm to firewall: E-commerce and the growth of new occupational opportunities

Ling Ma, Jun Wang and Shanyong Wang

Local government intervention and agro-cluster development: A comparative study of multi-stage ginger clusters in China

Songze Li, Yujing Song, Xiuwei Cao and Jikun Huang

Trade value of international friendship: Evidence from foreign exchange activities of Chinese cities

Jianjun Zhou, Dianer Ding and Huasheng Song

The effects of sectoral TFP on China’s structural transformation and growth

Xilu Chen and Kaiming Guo

Corrigendum to ‘Innovation at crossroads: The effect of merger and acquisition on inventors’ creativity’ [China Economic Review 97 (2026) 102692]

Xiaohua Bao, Wen Ruan, Yaning Wei and Wentao Wu

Vertical integration and social welfare: Evidence from China's electric vehicle industry

Guodong Li, Yong Tan and Ying Zhu

The child penalty in the rental housing market: Do landlords discriminate couples with children?

Ziming Liu, Xinrui Wu, Zihan Yu, Zhaoyingzi Dong and Jens Rommel

Volume 96, issue C, 2026

Integration of medical care and elderly care: Chinese experience and outcomes of older adults

Chunfeng Zhang, Xiaoyan Lei and Yutong Chen

The impact of bank internationalization on the efficiency of Chinese outward foreign direct investment

Xingjian Zhang, Yi Zhang, Yingjie Fu and Feichi Lu

The distributive effects of online judicial auctions on corporate credit

Zijun Cheng, Michael Beichen Huang, Chaoqun Li and Yongwei Ye

Government linked companies (GLCs) and public private partnership (PPP) in the water sector in China: Political connection, utility performance and service quality

Xiaoting Zheng, Jiayu Wen and Xun Wu

FDI In, SOE Out: Understanding the reallocation effects of FDI liberalization in China

Wei Tang, Yuan Wang and Haiqi Wei

Fintech adoption and skill demand of financial institutions

Shuang-Xuan Sun, Chun-Yu Ho and Xi Zhu

How do very small businesses survive in a rent-seeking society? Evidence from China

Yongjing Zhang, Zhiqiang Dong and Xiahai Wei

Regulatory bias under fiscal stress: Evidence from non-local firms in maritime transport enforcement

Yukun Wang and Min Dai

Inventors in the top management team: How position shapes corporate innovation

Yafei Li, Shaoxiang Jiang and Jinping Sun

Information, pollution, and cognition: The impact of air pollution disclosure on aging minds

Shaohui Wu, Ge Yin and Xin Zhang

Returns to college education of Chinese manufacturing employees: Who benefits more?

Yuheng Lin, Dooruj Rambaccussing and Yu Zhu

Beauty and the business: Facial attractiveness and entrepreneurship

Jia Guo, Yijie Min, Ben Zhe Wang and Zhiming Cheng

Health, incentives, and retirement choice: A life-cycle analysis from China

Chao Li and Han Cang

Targeted environmental policy and public welfare: Evidence from fireworks deregulation in China

Jie Yang, Chu Wei, Renjun Shen and Tonghui Ji

The hysteresis effects of investment shocks in China

Zixiang Zhu, Weimin Zhou and Yake Wen

Political gestures or tightening mandates? New evidence for campaign-style environmental intervention in China

Jianglong Li, Shiqiang Sun, Guanfei Meng and Hongxun Liu

Promoting organic fertilizer use through subsidy incentives and knowledge dissemination

Jiangyi Li, Siyu Ding and Jiajia Chen

How does import expansion affect migrant labor wages: Evidence from China

Kaijie Li, Dandan Dong and Bing Liu

Information disclosure and property value in China

Jixiang Qiu, Yingdan Mei, Pengfei Liu and Xiaoning Su

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 (Kent) 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