China Economic Review

1990 - 2025

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 91, issue C, 2025

Participation in globalization and out of poverty: The opportunity provided by foreign investments

Zhiyuan Li, Yichun Lin, Guanghua Wan and Ruochen Wu

Understanding the distributional effects of income uncertainty shocks

Zhiwei Xu, Jianpo Xue and Zhewei Zhang

The impact of the global financial cycle on China's cross-border capital flows

Hui An, Yang Huang, Lifu Fan, Hao Wang and Xuan He

When economic downturn hits bottom workers: Labor market entry conditions and long-term career effects

Ye Jiang and Tonglong Zhang

Narrowing the digital divide: The growth and distributional effect of internet use on income in rural China

Tianyu Huang and Yiyue Quan

Moving out of agriculture: How trade liberalization affects agricultural productivity in China

Zhendong Ma, Di Wang, Fan Feng and Tianhui Zhao

Achieving the synergy of pollution and carbon emission reductions: Can artificial intelligence applications work?

Jie Dian, Shanmin Li and Tian Song

The effect of electricity time-of-use plans: Evidence from the industrial sector in China

Lingfang Li, Jiehong Qiu and Gang Fang

The impact of air pollution on crowdfunding donations for critical illnesses: Evidence from China

Sheng Hua, Huina Liu, Zheng Ji and Han Liang

Did FinTech steal the cheese of banks? Evidence from Chinese firm exports

Ling Feng, Zhiyuan Li, Yixuan Liu and Yahong Zhou

How trade drives fluctuations in macroeconomics in China – A multi-level dynamic factor approach

Jianghuai Hou, Fang Wang and Ji Zhang

Anti-dumping duties, export price adjustment, and firm ownership: Evidence from Chinese aluminum exporters

Li Su, Yanfei Wang, Mengyuan Zhang and Wei Lin

How does monetary policy shock affect banks' loan loss provisioning behavior? Evidence from Chinese commercial banks

Yong Ma and Huanqi Lan

The revenue and welfare implications of digital coupon stimulus programs

Ying Chen, Jiaming Mao and Yue Wang

Fintech, technological innovation and regional economic growth: Theoretical modeling and empirical evidence

Xirong Huang, Jichang Dong and Xiuting Li

How services liberalization shapes functional specialization in developing countries?

Feifei Wu, Lei Liu, Bo Gao and Yanrui Wu

Quantifying change: The impact of digital financial inclusion across income quantiles in China

Huanjun Zhu, Jialiang Zhu and Yulin Zhu

Trade policy uncertainty and market diversification by risk-averse firms

Zhiyuan Chen, Zhihao Wang, Ting Zhu, Kejian Gu and Ying Tang

Disclosing personal information on behalf of others: An experimental study

Minda Wang, Jianbiao Li, Xiaofei Niu and Wenhua Wang

Trade-linked pandemic, enforcement gap, and pollution

Huanhuan Wang, Zhiqiang Zhang and Xiaoxue Zhao

The role of social networks and institutional support in cluster formation

Shuanghe Shang, Xiaobo Zhang and Yunfei Zhang

The impact of agricultural OFDI network status on home countries' food security

Lihua Dai, Chenyue Zhang and Zhenqing Gao

Trade and welfare effects of food trade policy changes: Evidence from China's anti-dumping and countervailing measures on Australian barley

Jijun Yang, Weiwei Ai and Wenxiao Wang

Can reducing agricultural trade costs foster the transformation of the agrifood system? Evidence from China

Xiaolu Liu, Yumei Zhang, Xiangmin Lan and Wei Si

Leveling the playing field: How intellectual property protection countervails foreign quality shocks

Xiaotian Hu, Yibei Guo and Baomin Dong

Lost in translation: Dialect distance, social assimilation and immigrant crimes in China

Wen Liu and Zhicheng Xu

Toward consumer city: Subway network expansion and consumption industry growth

Yanwen Yun and Yanxiao Li

Interlocking directorates and firm performance: Evidence from China

Muzi Chen, Guangxin Guo, Difang Huang, Yan Wang and Boyao Wu

Greening through finance? Based on the dual perspective of external constraints and internal governance

Xiaomeng Zhao, Yinna Chen and Jiaming Wang

Inclusive growth dilemma: Weighing the pros and cons of land market reform

Guangyu Xu and Huang Chen

A blessing and a curse: Identifying how knowledge complexity influences regional innovation efficiency in the presence of varying spatial externalities

Xionghe Qin, Dong Zhang, Song Wang and Seamus Grimes

Nonlinear relationship between the number of children and late-life cognition

Yuting Bai, Shiko Maruyama and Si Wang

Customer digital transformation and enterprise risk-taking: Evidence from Chinese supply chains

Yibing Ding, Yining Sun and Xiaoou Zhang

More than a new campus: University's spatial expansion, emerging knowledge cluster, and innovation growth

Xiuyan Liu, Fan Zhang and Qiao Wang

Volume 90, issue C, 2025

Industrialize with tax structure change: Agricultural tax abolition and local industrial growth in China

Meng Tang

The relaxation of birth control policies adversely affects women's income: Evidence from China's universal two-child policy

Zihao Chen and Xu Tian

Geopolitics along the value chains

Renjing Chen, Chenxin Jin, Wei Jin, Bin Sheng and Guanxiang Wang

Fiscal decentralization and food production: Evidence from Province-Managing-County reform in China

Hongqi Ma, Cong Qin, Jingxian Zou and Wei Zhang

Enhancing optimal consumption: Experimental insights into nudging borrowing behavior via a life cycle model

Xue Zhou, Xiaolan Yang, Xuejun Jin and Lele Zhang

Gender differences in the tendency to follow private information: Evidence from a social learning game

Zhaomin Li, Qian Cao, Jun Luo and Xiaofei Niu

Are firms with hometown CEOs better citizens? Evidence from the corporate poverty alleviation participation in China

Xiaobo Li, Min Huang, Jinan Shao, Mengyao Li and Wuyue Shangguan

Effects of wealth on the intensity of competition: Evidence from a lab experiment

Jun Zhao, Zhiqiang Dong, Weicheng Li and Hanqi Zhang

Unveiling paradoxes of access: How higher education expansion shapes intergenerational educational mobility in China's admission quota system

Jingfang Liu, Yang Yue and Junjian Zhu

Measuring child poverty in rural China: Evidence from households with left-behind and non-left-behind children

Yangcheng Yu, Shi Li and Yuanyuan Chen

Shadow and spillover: The influence of neighboring innovative cities on regional innovation growth

Wenyue Cui

Unveiling the impact and mechanism of agricultural input allocation on the income mobility of rural households: Evidence from China

Yun Shen, Di Zeng and Alec Zuo

The productivity and political radicalism of the Chinese cooperative movement11We are appreciate for two referees' comments on our manuscript, and we also thank the discussants on “The 2017 Symposium of Development and Institutional Economics” in Henan University. The research is funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China (71973047) and the Humanities and Social Science Research Program of Education Department of Henan Province (2024-ZZJH-140). Of course, all remain errors are ours

Pei Lu and Yuan Liu

Good for bad: The heterogeneous effects of export controls on firms' ESG

Qing Liu, Deting Jia, Huiling Liu and Kai Wang

Does the housing purchase restriction policy promote entrepreneurship? Evidence from China

Deng-Kui Si, Meng Wang and Yong Yu

The effect living arrangements and intergenerational support have on the incidence of catastrophic health expenditure: A microeconomic analysis for China

Sarah Bridges and Lefan Liu

Delegation and strategic collusion under antitrust policies: An experiment

Jeong Yeol Kim

Productivity implications of inefficient environmental regulation: Evidence from China

Jing Hang, Miaojun Wang and Mohan Zhou

Analysing decision behavior styles in contingent valuation: The latent class and the factor analysis

Hongyan Su, Jie He and Hua Wang

The effect of corporate energy management on carbon productivity: Regression discontinuity evidence from China

Hongwei Yu, Debin Fang, Yuling Pan and Bolin Yu

Unlocking the dual benefits: Economic and ecological impacts of China's National Key Ecological Function Areas

Houqi Shen, Yuanmeng Zhang, Mingzhe Wang and Yumeng Lei

How geopolitical tensions affect China’s systemic financial risk contagion

YingXue Zhou, Da Wang and Zhengyi Nie

“A tale of two rails”: Transportation infrastructure and technological spillovers from R&D center foreign firms

Lei Li, Bocong Liu, Bin Sheng and Tianyu Wang

Urbanization or “Townization”? Measuring the evolution of urban systems in modern China

Hao Feng, Jingyang Fu, Huiwen Li and Yuanbo Liang

Broadband internet and income inequality among the floating population: Evidence from the “broadband China” strategy in China

Qingfeng Cao, Pengfei Ni and Jing Guo

China's aid-giving modalities: Impacts on sustainable growth in China-Africa trade

Xu Shao, Qicheng Yang and Zhao Liu

Housing wealth of older adults and inter-generational transfers in China

Jing Liu, Xiaohui Zhang and Chunbing Xing

Labor cost, robots, and product quality

Junyi Xiang, Dongmin Kong and Fan Zhang

The green promise of digital finance: Exploring its effects and mechanisms on carbon reduction

Xu Dong, Shuai Lv and Shilei Wu

Digital pathways to resilience: Assessing the impact of digitalization on agricultural production resilience in China

Yuke Luo, Shiyuan Liu, Yang Zhang, Miao Zeng and Dandi Zhao

Talent magnets in China: Can talent attraction policies catalyze digital transformation in enterprises?

Zesu Hua, Shuning Kong and Yihua Yu