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 32, issue C, 2015

A model of sequential reforms and economic convergence: The case of China pp. 1-26

Yong Wang

Disproportionate ownership structure and IPO long-run performance of non-SOEs in China pp. 27-42

Xiaoming Wang, Jerry Cao, Qigui Liu, Jinghua Tang and Gary Gang Tian

Impacts of ISO 14001 adoption on firm performance: Evidence from China pp. 43-56

Wenlong He, Chong Liu, Jiangyong Lu and Jing Cao

Empirical study of the local government deficit, land finance and real estate markets in China pp. 57-67

Jiun-Nan Pan, Jr-Tsung Huang and Tsun-Feng Chiang

Fishing in the same pool: Export strengths and competitiveness of China and Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe at the EU-15 market pp. 68-83

Maria Silgoner, Katharina Steiner, Julia Wörz and Christian Schitter

Officials on boards and the prudential behavior of banks: Evidence from China's city commercial banks pp. 84-96

Xianhang Qian, Guangli Zhang and Haiming Liu

Spatial spillovers of regional wages: Evidence from Chinese provinces pp. 97-109

Qiong Huang and Satish Chand

The labor market effect of foreign acquisitions: Evidence from Chinese manufacturing firms pp. 110-120

Qing Liu, Ruosi Lu and Chao Zhang

Volume 31, issue C, 2014

Credit ratings and information asymmetry on the Chinese syndicated loan market pp. 1-16

Timo Korkeamäki, Salla Pöyry and Maiju Suo

Which types of institutions hinder productivity among private manufacturing firms in China? pp. 17-31

Travis Ng and Linhui Yu

Judicial quality, contract intensity and exports: Firm-level evidence pp. 32-42

Yongjin Wang, Yanling Wang and Kunwang Li

The impact of parental migration on children's school performance in rural China pp. 43-54

Qiran Zhao, Xiaohua Yu, Xiaobing Wang and Thomas Glauben

China's sovereign debt: A balance-sheet perspective pp. 55-73

Jianguo Xu and Xun Zhang

Why improving agrifood quality is difficult in China: Evidence from dairy industry pp. 74-83

Zhen Zhong, Shufen Chen, Xiangzhi Kong and Megan Tracy

Informal employment and its effect on the income distribution in urban China pp. 84-93

Jinjun Xue, Wenshu Gao and Lin Guo

The impact of higher education reform on research performance of Chinese universities pp. 94-105

Suthathip Yaisawarng and Ying Chu Ng

Welfare loss of China's air pollution: How to make personal vehicle transportation policy pp. 106-118

Su-Mei Chen and Ling-Yun He

Shadow banking in China: Institutional risks pp. 119-129

Jianjun Li, Sara Hsu and Yanzhi Qin

Measuring plant level energy efficiency in China's energy sector in the presence of allocative inefficiency pp. 130-144

Baiding Hu

Is there a gender gap in child nutritional outcomes in rural China? pp. 145-155

Weiwei Ren, Anu Rammohan and Yanrui Wu

The effect of sibling size on children's health: a regression discontinuity design approach based on China's one-child policy pp. 156-165

Hai Zhong

The trade-offs between efficiency and quality in the hospital production: Some evidence from Shenzhen, China pp. 166-184

Jinqiu Yang and Wu Zeng

The economic gains of cadre status in rural China: Investigating effects and mechanisms pp. 185-200

Yanhong Jin, Maoyong Fan, Mingwang Cheng and Qinghua Shi

The environmental efficiency of non-certified organic farming in China: A case study of paddy rice production pp. 201-216

Sébastien Marchand and Huanxiu Guo

Complementarities between R&D investment and exporting—Evidence from China pp. 217-227

Fang Wang

Economic growth and the geographic maldistribution of health care resources: Evidence from China, 1949-2010 pp. 228-246

Xuezheng Qin and Chee-Ruey Hsieh

Cultural border, administrative border, and regional economic development: Evidence from Chinese cities pp. 247-264

Xiang Gao and Cheryl Xiaoning Long

Spending preferences of local officials with off-budget land revenues of Chinese cities pp. 265-276

Chengri Ding, Yi Niu and Erik Lichtenberg

Does religious beliefs affect economic growth? Evidence from provincial-level panel data in China pp. 277-287

Qunyong Wang and Xinyu Lin

Benchmark wealth capital stock estimations across China's 344 prefectures: 1978 to 2012 pp. 288-302

Jidong Wu, Ning Li and Peijun Shi

Parental job loss and children's health: Ten years after the massive layoff of the SOEs' workers in China pp. 303-319

Hong Liu and Zhong Zhao

Distortion effects of export quota policy: an analysis of the China-Raw Materials dispute pp. 320-338

Christophe Charlier and Sarah Guillou

The impacts of structural transformation and industrial upgrading on regional inequality in China pp. 339-350

Tsun Se Cheong and Yanrui Wu

The drivers of energy intensity in China: A spatial panel data approach pp. 351-360

Lei Jiang, Henk Folmer and Minhe Ji

Financial sector policies and income inequality pp. 367-378

Anders Johansson and Xun Wang

Decomposing the rich dad effect on income inequality using instrumental variable quantile regression pp. 379-391

Zaichao Du, Renyu Li, Qinying He and Lin Zhang

The intergenerational inequality of health in China pp. 392-409

Tor Eriksson, Jay Pan and Xuezheng Qin

Are poverty rates underestimated in China? New evidence from four recent surveys pp. 410-425

Chunni Zhang, Qi Xu, Xiang Zhou, Xiaobo Zhang and Yu Xie

Financial liberalization and the middle-income trap pp. 426-440

Yiping Huang, Qin Gou and Wang Xun

The “growth-first strategy” and the imbalance between consumption and investment in China pp. 441-458

Julan Du, Hongsheng Fang and Xiangrong Jin

State advances and private retreats? — Evidence of aggregate productivity decomposition in China pp. 459-474

Jun Du, Xiaoxuan Liu and Ying Zhou

Volume 30, issue C, 2014

Performance outcomes of balanced scorecard application in hospital administration in China pp. 1-15

Zhijun Lin, Zengbiao Yu and Liqun Zhang

How much did China's WTO accession increase economic growth in resource-rich countries? pp. 16-26

Thomas Andersen, Mikkel Barslund, Casper Hansen, Thomas Harr and Peter Jensen

Returns to dialect pp. 27-43

Zhao Chen, Ming Lu and Le Xu

Population aging, consumption budget allocation and sectoral growth pp. 44-65

Rui Mao and Jianwei Xu

Consumption risk sharing and self-insurance across provinces in China: 1952–2008 pp. 66-85

Kenneth Chan, Jennifer Lai and Isabel K.M. Yan

New estimates and a decomposition of provincial productivity change in China pp. 86-97

James Laurenceson and Christopher O'Donnell

Escaping political extraction: Political participation, institutions, and cash holdings in China pp. 98-112

Xunan Feng and Anders Johansson

A new assessment of the Chinese RMB exchange rate pp. 113-122

Zhibai Zhang and Langnan Chen

Inaccurate fertilizer content and its effect on the estimation of production functions pp. 123-132

Ling Yee Khor and Manfred Zeller

The role of overseas Chinese-speaking regions in global sourcing pp. 133-142

Chu-Ping Lo, Shih-Jye Wu and Su-Ying Hsu

Pension financing in China: Is there a looming crisis? pp. 143-154

Lijian Wang, Daniel Béland and Sifeng Zhang

Health shocks, village elections, and household income: Evidence from rural China pp. 155-168

Jing Zhang, Li Gan, Lixin Xu and Yang Yao

Impact of Chinese cross-border outbound M&As on firm performance: Econometric analysis using firm-level data pp. 169-179

Kazuma Edamura, Sho Haneda, Tomohiko Inui, Xiaofei Tan and Yasuyuki Todo

The nexus between labor wages and property rents in the Greater China area pp. 180-191

Terence Tai Leung Chong, Kenny Chi-Wai Shui and Vivian H. Wong

When a son is born: The impact of fertility patterns on family finance in rural China pp. 192-208

Weili Ding and Yuan Zhang

Financial crisis and saving–investment dynamics in the presence of cross-sectional dependence: The case of East Asia pp. 209-220

Karim Eslamloueyan and Mahboubeh Jafari

The impact of the 2007 reforms on the level of information disclosure by the Chinese A-share market pp. 221-234

Rong Gong and Alastair Marsden

Depletion of non-renewable resources imported by China pp. 235-243

Creina Allen and Creina Day

Financial distress of Chinese firms: Microeconomic, macroeconomic and institutional influences pp. 244-262

Arnab Bhattacharjee and Jie Han

Does participating in health insurance benefit the migrant workers in China? An empirical investigation pp. 263-278

Xuezheng Qin, Jay Pan and Gordon G. Liu

The impact of intensive farming on land tenure: Evidence from Confucius' manors (1759–1901) pp. 279-289

He Yang

Economic returns to English proficiency for college graduates in mainland China pp. 290-300

Qian Guo and Wenkai Sun

Reform at China's National Bureau of Statistics under Ma Jiantang 2008–2013 pp. 304-308

Tom Orlik

The quality of China's GDP statistics pp. 309-338

Carsten Holz

Challenges of working with the Chinese NBS firm-level data pp. 339-352

Loren Brandt, Johannes Van Biesebroeck and Yifan Zhang

Explaining sectoral discrepancies between national and provincial statistics in China pp. 353-369

Ben Ma, Guojun Song, Lei Zhang and David A. Sonnenfeld

Implications of GDP accounting for factor income share in China pp. 370-382

Zhenjie Qian

Income distribution in urban China: An overlooked data inconsistency issue pp. 383-396

Hailong Jin, Hang Qian, Tong Wang and Eun Choi

Human capital estimates in China: New panel data 1985–2010 pp. 397-418

Haizheng Li, Qinyi Liu, Bo Li, Barbara Fraumeni and Xiaobei Zhang

Data for studying earnings, the distribution of household income and poverty in China pp. 419-431

Björn Gustafsson, Shi Li and Hiroshi Sato

Measuring market concentration in China: the problem with using censored data and its rectification pp. 432-447

Chong-En Bai, Jie Mao and Qiong Zhang

The Golden Tax Project, value-added tax statistics, and the analysis of internal trade in China pp. 448-458

Weibo Xing and John Whalley

Regional patterns of food safety in China: What can we learn from media data? pp. 459-468

Nicholas Holtkamp, Peng Liu and William McGuire

Where have all the pigs gone? Inconsistencies in pork statistics in China pp. 469-484

Xiaohua Yu and David Abler

Accounting for China's urbanization pp. 485-494

Qin Chen and Zheng Song

Note on urbanization in China: Urban definitions and census data pp. 495-502

Bo Qin and Yu Zhang

Recent macroeconomic stability in China pp. 505-519

Qing He and Haiqiang Chen

Who posts performance bonds and why? Evidence from China's CEOs pp. 520-529

Alex Bryson, John Forth and Minghai Zhou

How does foreign direct investment affect industrial competitiveness? Evidence from China pp. 530-539

Kevin Honglin Zhang

Reprint of “Chinese producer behavior: Aquaculture farmers in southern China” pp. 540-547

David Ortega, H. Holly Wang, Nicole Widmar and Laping Wu

The changing determinants of high school attainment in rural China pp. 551-566

Juan Yang, Terry Sicular and Desheng Lai

China's higher education expansion and unemployment of college graduates pp. 567-582

Shi Li, John Whalley and Chunbing Xing

Firm-level innovation activity, employee turnover and HRM practices — Evidence from Chinese firms pp. 583-597

Tor Eriksson, Zhihua Qin and Wenjing Wang

Are all admission sub-tests created equal? — Evidence from a National Key University in China pp. 600-617

Guangliang Yang

College admissions in China: A mechanism design perspective pp. 618-631

Min Zhu

Do college entrance examination scores predict undergraduate GPAs? A tale of two universities pp. 632-647

Chong-En Bai, Wei Chi and Xiaoye Qian