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 59, issue C, 2020

Promoting dietary guidelines and environmental sustainability in China

Lei Lei and Satoru Shimokawa

Projecting meat and cereals demand for China based on a meta-analysis of income elasticities

De Zhou, Xiaohua Yu, David Abler and Danhong Chen

An experimental investigation of bilateral oligopoly in emissions trading markets

Kenta Tanaka, Isamu Matsukawa and Shunsuke Managi

The impact of energy regulation on energy intensity and energy structure: Firm-level evidence from China

Dengke Chen, Shiyi Chen, Hao Jin and Yulin Lu

Returns to military service in off-farm wage employment: Evidence from rural China

Benyufang Hou, Hong Liu and Sophie Xuefei Wang

Recent housing affordability in urban China: A comprehensive overview

Keyang Li, Yu Qin and Jing Wu

The productivity impacts of energy efficiency programs in developing countries: Evidence from iron and steel firms in China

Massimo Filippini, Thomas Geissmann, Valerie J. Karplus and Da Zhang

Does wealth matter? An assessment of China's rural-urban migration on the education of left-behind children

Guanyi Yang and Cynthia Bansak

Second language skills and labor market outcomes: Evidence from the handover of Hong Kong

Yonghong Zhou, Rong Zhu and Xian Zheng

Measuring economic policy uncertainty in China

Yun Huang and Paul Luk

Persistent and transient inefficiency: Explaining the low efficiency of Chinese big banks11We thank Ifthekar Hasan, Chun-Yu Ho, Iikka Korhonen, Jun Wu, Yanrui Wu, the participants of the Conference on China's Financial Markets and Growth Rebalancing in New York (October 2017), AEA/ASSA meeting in Philadelphia (January 2018), Finnish Economic Association XL Annual Meeting in Turku (February 2018), ESCB China Expert Network workshop in Helsinki (March 2018), XIX April International Academic Conference in Moscow (April 2018), China Financial and Banking System Workshop in Aberdeen (June 2018), CEA Annual Meeting in Edinburgh (June 2018) and the research seminars at the Bank of Finland Institute for Economies in Transition (October 2017), Aix-Marseille School of Economics (January 2018), Leibniz-Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung in Regensburg (June 2018) for their valuable comments and suggestions

Zuzana Fungáčová, Paul-Olivier Klein and Laurent Weill

The quantity of education and preference for sons: Evidence from Taiwan's compulsory education reform

Cheng Chen, Shin-Yi Chou, Lea Gimenez and Jin-Tan Liu

Firm dynamics of hi-tech start-ups: Does innovation matter?

Dongyang Zhang, Liqun Zhuge and Richard Freeman

Fiscal incentives, competition, and investment in China

Bingyang Lv, Yongzheng Liu and Yan Li

Does urbanization increase residential energy use? Evidence from the Chinese residential energy consumption survey 2012

Lunyu Xie, Haosheng Yan, Shuhan Zhang and Chu Wei

Has urbanization accelerated PM2.5 emissions? An empirical analysis with cross-country data

Qichen Dong, Yongyi Lin, Jieyu Huang and Zhongfei Chen

Transition from factor-driven to innovation-driven urbanization in China: A study of manufacturing industry automation in Dongguan City

Xun Li, Eddie Chi-man Hui, Wei Lang, Shali Zheng and Xiaozhen Qin

Hukou identity and trust—Evidence from a framed field experiment in China

Jun Luo and Xinxin Wang

Overeducation, market recognition, and effective labour supply

Yu He, Xiujian Peng and Hangtian Xu

The rise of the service sector in China

Junmin Liao

Firm-level human capital and innovation: Evidence from China

Xiuli Sun, Haizheng Li and Vivek Ghosal

Volume 58, issue C, 2019

Regional disparity and convergence of electricity consumption in China: A distribution dynamics approach

Tsun Se Cheong, Victor Jing Li and Xunpeng Shi

Do politically connected independent directors matter? Evidence from mandatory resignation events in China

Lei Cheng and Zhen Sun

Automation and inequality in China

Yixiao Zhou and Rodney Tyers

China's ‘New Normal’: Is the growth slowdown demand- or supply-driven?

Anping Chen and Nicolaas Groenewold

Memories of colonial law: The inheritance of human capital and the location of joint ventures in early-reform China

Cheryl Long, Peter Murrell and Li Yang

Reform of the shareholding system for collective assets, residents' participation, and community debts risk

Shuang Ma, Yuexuan Gong and Ding Li

The role of research and ownership collaboration in generating patent quality: China-U.S comparisons

Renai Jiang, Gary H. Jefferson, Sam Zucker and Lintong Li

Too big to change: How heterogeneous firms respond to time-of-use electricity price

Yang Zhou, Rong Ma, Yun Su and Libo Wu

Energy consumption of urban households in China

Wenhao Hu, Mun Ho and Jing Cao

Obesity inequality and the changing shape of the bodyweight distribution in China

Peng Nie, Lanlin Ding and Alfonso Sousa-Poza

‘The quintessential Chinese dream’? Homeownership and the subjective wellbeing of China's next generation

Kushneel Prakash and Russell Smyth

Impacts of China-US trade conflicts on the energy sector

Yan Xia, Yishu Kong, Qiang Ji and Dayong Zhang

Political turnover and firm pollution discharges: An empirical study

Yuping Deng, Yanrui Wu and Helian Xu

Volume 57, issue C, 2019

Chinese household saving and dependent children: Theory and evidence

Steven Lugauer, Jinlan Ni and Zhichao Yin

China's soft budget constraint on the demand-side undermines its supply-side structural reforms

Wing Thye Woo

Rebalancing China: International lessons in corporate debt – Remarks at the Chinese Economists Society Conference on Sustainable Development in China and the World

David A. Lipton

Growth led by human capital in big cities: Exploring complementarities and spatial agglomeration of the workforce with various skills

Wenquan Liang and Ming Lu

A “hard landing” or secular stagnation in China's future: False alarm or real threat?

Dwight Perkins

Balance sheet expansion and economic growth in China: Crowd in or crowd out?

Zhigang Yuan, Can Rao and Shuangshuang Shi

The choice between PIPE and SEO in China

Seungjoon Oh, Heungju Park and Chi Zhang

Fertility and old-age labor supply in aging China

Xue Qiao and Lili Wang

Role of China in the development of trade and FDI cooperation with BRICS countries

Svetlana Gusarova

Corruption as a natural resource curse: Evidence from the Chinese coal mining

Baomin Dong, Yu Zhang and Huasheng Song

Agricultural productivity evolution in China: A generalized decomposition of the Luenberger-Hicks-Moorsteen productivity indicator

Zhiyang Shen, Tomas Baležentis and Gary Ferrier

On corporate philanthropy of private firms and trade credit financing in China

Yan Yang, Shujie Yao, Hongbo He and Jinghua Ou

Information contents of collateral under heterogeneous borrower qualities on the bank loans market in China

Zhichao Yin, Mei Qiu and Li Gan

The effect of education expansion on intergenerational transmission of education: Evidence from China

Ling Liu and Qian Wan

Trustworthiness of local government, institutions, and self-employment in transitional China

Jiangli Dou, Bing Ye, Jianliang Ye and Zhidong Pan

Does the high- and new-technology enterprise program promote innovative performance? Evidence from Chinese firms

Xiaoyong Dai and Fang Wang

Measuring China's patent quality: Development and validation of ISR indices

Philipp Boeing and Elisabeth Mueller

Promotions in the internal labor market: New evidence from China

James Liang, Xiaoquan Wang and Hong Zhang

Beauty premium in China's labor market: Is discrimination the main reason?

Tianzhu Gu and Yueqing Ji

Does the "missing" high-income matter? -Income distribution and inequality revisited with truncated distribution

Xuehui Han and Yuan Cheng

Dual-track interest rates and capital misallocation

Shiyi Chen and Bin Lin

Corruption and private firms' survival in transition economies: Evidence from China

Jianhong Zhang, Shifan Quan and Jiangang Jiang

Do CO2 emissions impact energy use? An assessment of China evidence from 1953 to 2017

Wen-Wen Zhang, Shi-Chun Xu and Basil Sharp

Energy efficiency gap and target setting: A study of information asymmetry between governments and industries in China

Yang Liu, Xilong Yao and Taoyuan Wei

Does renaming promote economic development? New evidence from a city-renaming reform experiment in China

Jing Guo and Zhengyu Zhang

Family size, birth order and educational attainment: Evidence from China

Qian Weng, Xia Gao, Haoran He and Shi Li