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 45, issue C, 2017

Better safe than sorry? Evidence from Lanzhou's driving restriction policy pp. 1-21

Jingjing Ye

The value of Chinese patents: An empirical investigation of citation lags pp. 22-34

Christian Fisch, Philipp Sandner and Lukas Regner

Can land transfer through land cooperatives foster off-farm employment in China? pp. 35-44

Ziming Liu, Jens Rommel, Shuyi Feng and Markus Hanisch

The impact of Province-Managing-County fiscal reform on primary education in China pp. 45-61

Bin Huang, Mengmeng Gao, Caiqun Xu and Yu Zhu

Financing and monitoring in an emerging economy: Can investment efficiency be increased? pp. 62-77

Muhammad Kaleem Khan, Ying He, Umair Akram and Suleman Sarwar

Trade openness and air pollution: City-level empirical evidence from China pp. 78-88

Faqin Lin

Do bigger and older firms learn more from exporting? — Evidence from China pp. 89-102

Bih Jane Liu

How and why do Chinese urban students outperform their rural counterparts? pp. 103-123

Guochang Zhao, Jingjing Ye, Zhengyang Li and Sen Xue

How much slack was there in the Chinese economy prior to its economic reform of 1978? pp. 124-142

Lawrence J. Lau and Huanhuan Zheng

The impact of intra-industry trade on business cycle synchronization in East Asia pp. 143-154

Linyue Li

Stock returns under hyperinflation: Evidence from China 1945–48 pp. 155-167

Liuyan Zhao

The impact of tariff reductions on firm dynamics and productivity in China: Does market-oriented transition matter? pp. 168-194

Qilin Mao and Bin Sheng

Words vs. actions: International variation in the propensity to fulfil investment pledges in China pp. 195-218

Abigail Hornstein

Can self-employment activity contribute to ascension to urban citizenship? Evidence from rural-to-urban migrant workers in China pp. 219-231

Guangjie Ning and Wei Qi

Product quality asymmetry and food safety: Investigating the “one farm household, two production systems” of fruit and vegetable farmers in China pp. 232-243

Man Zhang, Yanhong Jin, Hui Qiao and Fengtian Zheng

Impact of land tenure policy on agricultural investments in China: Evidence from a panel data study pp. 244-252

Liangliang Gao, Dingqiang Sun and Jikun Huang

Optimal government investment and public debt in an economic growth model pp. 257-278

Chuanglian Chen, Shujie Yao, Peiwei Hu and Yuting Lin

Culture, fertility and the socioeconomic status of women pp. 279-288

Chuanchuan Zhang and Tao Li

Economic and environmental impacts of foreign direct investment in China: A spatial spillover analysis pp. 289-309

Jianhuan Huang, Xudong Chen, Bihong Huang and Xiaoguang Yang

Urbanization, inequality and property prices: Equilibrium pricing and transaction in the Chinese housing market pp. 310-328

Teng Ge and Tao Wu

Volume 44, issue C, 2017

How does outward foreign direct investment enhance firm productivity? A heterogeneous empirical analysis from Chinese manufacturing pp. 1-15

Youxing Huang and Yan Zhang

An evaluation of pension differentials between Chinese private and public sectors from perspective of protection and incentives over the lifecycle pp. 16-29

Hongbo Jia

Policy effect on structural change: A case of Chinese intermediate goods trade pp. 30-47

Yanghua Huang, Nimesh Salike and Feiteng Zhong

Political ties and VC exits: Evidence from China pp. 48-66

Hamish Anderson, Jing Chi and Wang, Qing (Sophie)

Can equalization of public services narrow the regional disparities in China? A spatial econometrics approach pp. 67-78

Bin Li, Tuo Li, Man Yu and Bin Chen

Early poverty exposure predicts young adult educational outcomes in China pp. 79-97

Xiaoying Liu and Emily Hannum

Assessing credit guarantee companies in China: Applying a new framework pp. 98-111

Jiaming Li and Xiaohua Lin

Opportunity or new poverty trap: Rural-urban education disparity and internal migration in China pp. 112-124

Huafeng Zhang

Industry specific effects on innovation performance in China pp. 125-137

JianCheng Guan and Lanxin Pang

Economies of scale, resource dilution and education choice in developing countries: Evidence from Chinese households pp. 138-153

Guangjun Shen, Jingxian Zou and Xiaoguang Liu

Picking ‘winners' in China: Do subsidies matter for indigenous innovation and firm productivity? pp. 154-165

Anthony Howell

On the choice of monetary policy rules for China: A Bayesian DSGE approach pp. 166-185

Bing Li and Qing Liu

Does wage justice hamper creativity? Pay gap and firm innovation in China pp. 186-202

Mingli Xu, Gaowen Kong and Dongmin Kong

Do China's high-speed-rail projects promote local economy?—New evidence from a panel data approach pp. 203-226

Xiao Ke, Haiqiang Chen, Yongmiao Hong and Cheng Hsiao

The effects of formal and informal child care on the Mother's labor supply—Evidence from urban China pp. 227-240

Yunrong Li

Confucius Institutes and FDI flows from China to Africa pp. 241-252

Muhammad Akhtaruzzaman, Nathan Berg and Donald Lien

The income-body-size gradient among Chinese urban adults: A semiparametric analysis pp. 253-270

Matthieu Clément

Government intervention in the capital allocation process: Excess employment as an IPO selection rule in China pp. 271-281

Anders Johansson, Danglun Luo, Johanna Rickne and Wei Zheng

Trends in elderly health by cohort: Evidence from China pp. 282-295

Yangyang Yu and Frank Sloan

Property rights security and firm survival: Micro-data evidence from China pp. 296-310

Qiong Zhang, Yupeng Shi, Angda He and Xueting Wen

How to identify poor immigrants? - An empirical study of the Three Gorges Reservoir in China pp. 311-326

Yue Liu, Chuanmin Shuai and Huimin Zhou

Zombie firms and over-capacity in Chinese manufacturing pp. 327-342

Guangjun Shen and Binkai Chen

School starting age and academic achievement: Evidence from China's junior high schools pp. 343-354

Shiying Zhang, Ruoyu Zhong and Junchao Zhang

Volume 43, issue C, 2017

Social networks, job satisfaction and job searching behavior in the Chinese labor market pp. 1-15

Ailun Xiong, Hongyi Li, Hans Westlund and Yongjian Pu

The Impact of an Academic High School Tuition Relief Program on Students’ Matriculation into High Schools in Rural China pp. 16-28

Yunli Bai, Linxiu Zhang, Hongmei Yi, Liming Zheng and Scott Rozelle

Who determines Chinese firms' engagement in corruption: Themselves or neighbors? pp. 29-46

Jing You and Huihua Nie

A dilemma of fertility and female labor supply: Identification using Taiwanese twins pp. 47-63

Junchao Zhang

Demographic change and its impact on farmers' field production decisions pp. 64-71

Yueqing Ji, Xuezhi Hu, Jing Zhu and Funing Zhong

The preference for larger cities in China: Evidence from rural-urban migrants pp. 72-90

Chunbing Xing and Junfu Zhang

The economic returns to proficiency in English in China pp. 91-104

Haining Wang, Russell Smyth and Zhiming Cheng

Corruption, costs, and family: Chinese capital flight, 1984–2014 pp. 105-117

Frank R. Gunter

Domestic and international border effects: The cases of China and Japan pp. 118-126

Kazunobu Hayakawa

China’s expansion of higher education: The labour market consequences of a supply shock pp. 127-141

John Knight, Quheng Deng and Shi Li

A contractual analysis of state versus private ownership pp. 142-168

Kun Jiang and Susheng Wang

Are smokers too optimistic about their health status: Ex ante perception versus ex post observation pp. 169-183

Chee-Ruey Hsieh and Te-Fen Lo

Mechanization outsourcing clusters and division of labor in Chinese agriculture pp. 184-195

Xiaobo Zhang, Jin Yang and Thomas Reardon

Are local governments maximizing land revenue? Evidence from China pp. 196-215

Yuan Wang and Eddie Chi-man Hui

The effectiveness of monetary policy in China: Evidence from a Qual VAR pp. 216-231

Hongyi Chen, Kenneth Chow and Peter Tillmann