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 98, issue C, 2026

Imports of key capital goods and firms’ span of production stages: A global value chain perspective

Liang Zhang, Hengrui Zhou, Lamei Wu and Jialin Xu

From vocational high school to higher vocational education: Effects on early career earnings and occupations

Sihang Rao, Denise Hare and Hongmei Yi

The impacts of abolishing grade retention on schools and families in China

Bin Liang and Shiying Zhang

The relative contribution of political shocks to total spillovers in semiconductor industry

Yifei Cai, Jialin Yang, Xiaowen Fu and Yahua Zhang

Can green mergers and acquisitions drive firms' transition to green exports? Evidence from China's manufacturing sector

Rui Long and Zhaobin Fan

A proposition of lose-lose: Detrimental consequences of trade wars

Wan-Jung Cheng, Ping Wang and Shin-Ru Yang

Do bankruptcy judicial reforms improve small and medium enterprises' investment efficiency? Evidence from China

Lulu Di and Qiurui Mou

Corrigendum to ‘Local government intervention and agro-cluster development: A comparative study of multi-stage ginger clusters in China’ [China Economic Review (2026) 102694]

Songze Li, Yujing Song, Xiuwei Cao and Jikun Huang

Haze and crime: Evidence from court judgments in China

Yajie Han, Ming Li and Yu Qin

Impacts of administrative policy changes on housing prices: Evidence from the removal of China's housing purchase and resale restrictions

Tunye Qiu and Bowen Wang

Labor ideology under technological shocks: The impact of industrial robot adoption on work values

Yibing Ding, Xiaoou Zhang and Ziwei Liu

Incomes, aspiration adaptation, and happiness: Evidence from China

Jinyang Yang, Liang You and Yingheng Zhou

Employment challenges of Chinese college graduates: trends, heterogeneity, and employer responses

Yao Lu and Xiaoguang Li

Who benefits and how? Gendered effects of higher education expansion on local human capital investment

Wei Ha, Lu Lin, Sammy Pan and Shu Xu

Digital tax administration and conglomerates capital structure adjustment driven by tax planning

Xufei Zhang and Hongsheng Fang

Information leverage: Housing market dynamics in public rehabilitation projects

Ying Fan and Hengtai Yu

How polluting enterprises respond to Pigovian tax: Evidence from China's environmental protection tax law

Xiaolei Yang, Panbing Wan and Mian Yang

Group identity and cooperative behavior: Evidence from a public goods experiment

Yexin Zhou, Ru Chen and Jubo Yan

Participation rates in a group-based early childhood development program: Evidence from rural China

Zhidi Zhang, Lei Wang, Yun Shen, Jessica Lin, Philip Meng, Isabella Zheng, Norah Zhao, Katelynn You, Teresa Song, Alvin Wu, Hanwen Zhang, Bingquan Zhu and Scott Rozelle

Intellectual property services and the commercialization of patents: Insights from Chinese scientists

Yiling Guo, Shiyu Zhong, Chuyi Zhou, Jinhua Xiang and Xuan Leng

Historical clans and litigation aversion

He Shijun, Shan Mengjue and Zhou Qingyuan

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