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 67, issue C, 2021

The white elephant in IP management market frictions, market connections and escalation of commitment

Lei Cheng and Zhen Sun

Trade in information technologies and changes in the demand for occupations

Vahagn Jerbashian

Belt and road: The China dream?

Karen Jackson and Oleksandr Shepotylo

Establishing science parks everywhere? Misallocation in R&D and its determinants of science parks in China

Chih-Hai Yang and Wen-Chieh Lee

The hit of the novel coronavirus outbreak to China's economy

Hongbo Duan, Qin Bao, Kailan Tian, Shouyang Wang, Cuihong Yang and Zongwu Cai

The impact of COVID-19 on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs): Evidence from two-wave phone surveys in China

Ruochen Dai, Hao Feng, Junpeng Hu, Quan Jin, Huiwen Li, Ranran Wang, Ruixin Wang, Lihe Xu and Xiaobo Zhang

Whom to educate? Financial literacy and investor awareness

Zhengqing Gui, Yangguang Huang and Xiaojian Zhao

Onshore spot and offshore forward markets for RMB: Evidence from the “8.11” exchange rate regime reform

Xue Li, Yanghui Liu, Hanxu Li and Jie Li

Is the 2003 SARS epidemic over? Long-term effects of epidemic exposure on mortality among older adults

Guanfu Fang and Jin Feng

Does tax deduction relax financing constraints? Evidence from China's value-added tax reform

Jingwen Wang, Guangjun Shen and Dunzhe Tang

Examining the impact of home purchase restrictions on China's housing market

Zhentong Lu, Sisi Zhang and Jian Hong

Servicification of investment and structural transformation: The case of China

Kaiming Guo, Jing Hang and Se Yan

College admissions in three Chinese provinces: Boston mechanism vs. deferred acceptance mechanism

Yun Pu

Resource-Exhausted City Transition to continue industrial development

Yajie Sun and Wen-Chi Liao

Volume 66, issue C, 2021

Estimating the effect of the one-child policy on Chinese household savings - Evidence from an Oaxaca decomposition

Zhongchen Song, Tom Coupé and W. Reed

The health capacity to work at older ages in urban China

Bo Hou, Gewei Wang, Yafeng Wang and Yaohui Zhao

Motivation of Chinese commercial banks to issue green bonds: Financing costs or regulatory arbitrage?

Xiao Cao, Cheng Jin and Wenjie Ma

The legal environment, specialized investments, incomplete contracts, and labor productivity

Junqing Li, Ersen Miao and Jianbo Zhang

Overeducation, major mismatch, and return to higher education tiers: Evidence from novel data source of a major online recruitment platform in China

Yanqiao Zheng, Xiaoqi Zhang and Yu Zhu

Global value chains, firms, and wage inequality: Evidence from China

Wenxiao Wang, Shandre Thangavelu and Faqin Lin

Why is inequality higher among the old? Evidence from China

Katja Hanewald, Ruo Jia and Zining Liu

Extreme heat and exports: Evidence from Chinese exporters

Chengzheng Li, Jiajia Cong and Lijuan Yin

Dragon year superstition, birth timing, and neonatal health outcomes

Cheng Huang, Shiying Zhang, Qingguo Zhao and Yan Lin

Expansionary monetary policy and credit allocation: Evidence from China

Yue Cai

The effect of family size on parents' labor supply and occupational prestige: Evidence from Taiwan and Mainland China

Cheng Chen, Wangyang Zhao, Shin-Yi Chou and Hsien-Ming Lien

Adapt by adopting cleaner vehicles? — Evidence from a low-emission zone policy in Nanchang, China

Jingjing Ye, Zhilong Qin and Xiaoguang Chen

Estimating local fiscal multipliers using political connections

Rong Li and Yijiang Zhou

Place-based techno-industrial policy and innovation: Government responses to the information revolution in China

Changqing Liu and Lei Li

Publishing and assessing the research of economists: Lessons from public health

Sean Sylvia and Scott Rozelle

A paradigmatic change is needed for understanding the real market

Weiying Zhang

Volume 65, issue C, 2021

The impact of special economic zones on producer services productivity: Evidence from China

Qiangmin Xi, Ruidong Sun and Lin Mei

Does top management quality promote innovation? Firm-level evidence from China

Qifeng Zhao, Zhen Li and Yihua Yu

Does institutional freedom matter for global forest carbon sinks in the face of economic development disparity?

Boqiang Lin and Jiamin Ge

Structural change in the Chinese economy and changing trade relations with the world

Eddy Bekkers, Robert Koopman and Carolina Lemos Rêgo

Misallocation and price distortions: A revenue decomposition of medical service providers in China

Zhongqi Deng, Nan Jiang, Shunfeng Song and Ruizhi Pang

Trade liberalization and child labor

Liqiu Zhao, Fei Wang and Zhong Zhao

Accounting and determinants analysis of China's provincial total factor productivity considering carbon emissions

Yuning Gao, Meichen Zhang and Jinghai Zheng

Transportation infrastructure and entrepreneurship: Evidence from high-speed railway in China

Liya Ma, Dongxiao Niu and Weizeng Sun

The complicit role of local government authorities in corporate bribery: Evidence from a tax collection reform in China

Chunfang Cao, Xiaoyang Li and Changyuan Xia

Exchange rate exposure and its determinants in China

Qing He, Junyi Liu and Ce Zhang

For goodwill or resources? The rationale behind firms' corporate philanthropy in an environment with high economic policy uncertainty

Haiqiang Chen, Ye Guo and Qiang Wen

Volume 64, issue C, 2020

The effect of technological factors and structural change on China's energy intensity: Evidence from dynamic panel models

Junbing Huang, Yali Lai and Hanlei Hu

Impact of urban-rural health insurance integration on health care: Evidence from rural China

Xian Huang and Bingxiao Wu

Lucky to have a sister: The effects of unmarried sister on brother outcomes in late imperial China

Feng Ding, Limin Du and Jinchuan Shi

Driving factors of CO2 emission inequality in China: The role of government expenditure

Wei Fan, Li Li, Feiran Wang and Ding Li

Can systemic risk measures predict economic shocks? Evidence from China

Guojin Chen, Yanzhen Liu and Yu Zhang

Dynamics of Local Cadre Appointment in China11We are grateful to the editor Cheryl Long, and three referees for their valuable comments. Shawn Xiaoguang Chen thanks the support of Beijing Municipal Education Commission (Beijing Outstanding Young Scientist Program/BJJWZYJH01201910034034). Xianxiang Xu acknowledges the grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 71673310, No. 71373290)

Shawn Chen, Yong Liu and Xianxiang Xu

Land costs, government intervention, and migration of firms: The case of China

Tingfeng Tang, Zhigang Li, Jinlan Ni and Jia Yuan

COVID-19 pandemic, health risks, and economic consequences: Evidence from China

Bo Zhao

Volume 63, issue C, 2020

Economic policy uncertainty and firms' investment and financing decisions in China

Guanchun Liu and Chengsi Zhang

Indoor air quality and health: Empirical evidence from fluoride pollution in China

Youhong Lin and Feng Liu

Bureaucratic integration and synchronization of regional economic growth: Evidence from China

Qing He, Junyi Liu, Chang Xue and Shaojie Zhou

Growth cycles and business cycles of the Chinese economy through the lens of the unobserved components model

Yang Han, Zehao Liu and Jun Ma

Economic growth target, distortion of public expenditure and business cycle in China

Dayong Liu, Chunfa Xu, Yongze Yu, Kaijian Rong and Junyan Zhang

The Spillover effect of export processing zones

Weixiao Wu, Chang Hong and Andrew Muhammad

Return migration and Hukou registration constraints in Chinese cities

Jipeng Zhang, Jin Huang, Junhui Wang and Liang Guo

Policy certainty and heterogeneous firm innovation: Evidence from China

Xiandeng Jiang, Dongming Kong and Chengrui Xiao

Examining the impact of high-speed railways on land value and government revenue: Evidence from China

Shaoshuai Li, Zhigang Li and Jia Yuan

Does Hukou pay? Evidence from nanny markets in urban China

Xiaobo He and Zijun Luo

Inequality of opportunity and household risky asset investment: Evidence from panel data in China

Yang Song, Weixing Wu and Guangsu Zhou

Impact of supplementary private health insurance on hospitalization and physical examination in China

Yawen Jiang and Weiyi Ni

Off-farm employment and grain production change: New evidence from China

Jin Yang, Qian Wan and Wu Bi

Climatic impact on China's residential electricity consumption: Does the income level matter?

Kerui Du, Ying Yu and Chu Wei

Pilot governance and the rise of China's innovation

Shilin Zheng and Zhaochen Li

Trade effects of silver price fluctuations in 19th-century China: A macro approach

Makram El-Shagi and Lin Zhang

Access to credit and farmland rental market participation: Evidence from rural China

Changsheng Li, Wanglin Ma, Ashok Mishra and Liangliang Gao

How does intermediate consumption affect GVC positions? - A comparison between China and US

Feng Dai, Ruixiang Liu, Hao Guo and Xiuhong Du

Does participating in the standards-setting process promote innovation? Evidence from China

Mao Zhang, Yiming Wang and Qifeng Zhao

Losing the future: Household wealth from urban housing demolition and children's human capital in China

Feng Li and Jing Jian Xiao

Rural household migration in China – the roles of actual and perceived tenure security

Guangcheng Ren, Xueqin Zhu, Nico Heerink and Shuyi Feng

China's anti-corruption campaign and firm productivity: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment

Dongmin Kong, Yunqing Tao and Yanan Wang

VAT rebates as trade policy: Evidence from China

Nils Braakmann, Bo Gao and Sara Maioli

Do tiger moms raise superior kids? The impact of parenting style on adolescent human capital formation in China

Haochen Zhang, Xuezheng Qin and Jiantao Zhou

Tertiary hospitals or community clinics? An enquiry into the factors affecting patients' choice for healthcare facilities in urban China

Shan Jiang, Yuanyuan Gu, Fan Yang, Tao Wu, Hui Wang, Henry Cutler and Lufa Zhang

The construction of high-speed railway and urban innovation capacity: Based on the perspective of knowledge Spillover

Jiating Wang and Siyuan Cai

Health risks of exposure to waste pollution: Evidence from Beijing

Hao Li, Huanxiu Guo, Naqun Huang and Jingjing Ye

Late-life cognition: Do childhood conditions play any role?

Yao Pan

A fair distribution and transfer mechanism of forest tourism benefits in China

Malin Song, Qianjiao Xie, Kim Hua Tan and Jianlin Wang