China Economic Journal

2008 - 2025

Current editor(s): Tiechang Gao and Yiping Huang

From Taylor & Francis Journals
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Longhurst ().

Access Statistics for this journal.
Is something missing from the series or not right? See the RePEc data check for the archive and series.

Volume 18, issue 2, 2025

Introduction to the special issue: rethinking institutions and development pp. 155-156

Tianyang Xi

Institution vs. strategy: the determinant of development success or failure pp. 157-185

Justin Yifu Lin, Zitong Zhang and Yuxuan Liu

Institutions, development, and causality pp. 186-195

Adam Przeworski

Institutional change and development from a dynamic perspective pp. 196-208

Zhaotian Luo and Tianyang Xi

Infrastructure and economic growth: from new structural economics perspective pp. 209-224

Shenzhe Jiang, Justin Yifu Lin and Ling Wang

The policy-driven misallocation: a political economy perspective pp. 225-240

Shiyuan Pan and Qi Zhang

Chinese economy in a changing world pp. 241-262

Wen Hai

Volume 18, issue 1, 2025

Introduction pp. 1-2

Xun Wang

Fallacy of the ‘China Collapse’ theory pp. 3-20

Justin Yifu Lin

The framework of macroeconomic policy in China pp. 21-36

Yiping Huang

China’s international environment and development challenges pp. 37-57

Xiuping Hua, Haolin Li and Yong Wang

Overseas investment by China’s manufacturing industry: where to go? pp. 58-77

Rong Cai

The growth of the county economy in China pp. 78-105

Henry H. Bi

The price of implicit guarantee: evidence from municipal bond markets in China pp. 106-130

Ping Zhang, Jiahe Zheng, Kexin Tang, Xun Ge and Guangwei Liu

The effects of macroeconomic uncertainty on corporate default risk: evidence from China pp. 131-154

Rui Wang and Zhuo Huang

Volume 17, issue 3, 2024

Correction pp. i-i

The Editors

The valuation effect of going International: evidence from QDII in China pp. 323-344

Zirun Wu and Jingwen Yu

The impact of the U.S. Inflation reduction act on the restructuring of the Asia-Pacific energy industry Chain and China’s response strategies pp. 345-367

Xinxuan Cheng and Manjiang Fan

Fertility, female labor supply, and household saving evidence from relaxing the one-child policy in China pp. 368-384

Ning Jia, Steven Lugauer, Jinlan Ni and Zhichao Yin

Assessing whether China will experience the lost decade of Japan pp. 385-417

Yifei Liu

Board diversity and corporate investment efficiency in emerging markets: an explanation based on principal-agent theory and resource dependence theory pp. 418-441

Dongliang Yuan, Duo Shang, Jianglong Yu and Xinyue Yu

The disappearance of pollution havens under unified environmental regulation: evidence from China’s pig industry pp. 442-460

Lijun Liu, Yingkai Yin, Guanghua Lin, Yazhou Liu, Yunqian Cheng and Chang Su

Long-term effect of trade liberalization on human capital: evidence from Chinese students pp. 461-480

Jintao Fu

Research on the impact of China’s free trade zone policies on urban economic development pp. 481-498

Dongyang Qiu, Yu Lan, Aochen Cao and Liang Tan

Economics of face masks through the lens of Chinese consumers during COVID-19: demand, supply, price, and willingness-to-pay pp. 499-518

Qiujie Zheng, H. Holly Wang, Guoyong Wu and Rachel W. Zhang

Volume 17, issue 2, 2024

A decade of the belt and road initiative and its global impact pp. 137-139

Jinlan Ni

Belt and Road countries’ external debt and China’s new strategies pp. 140-165

Shuanglin Lin

The belt & road initiative and U.S.-China competition over the global South pp. 166-181

Minghao Zhao

Enhancing connectivity of rules under the Belt and Road Initiative pp. 182-207

Li Yuan

How would legal systems affect US and Chinese foreign direct investment in Africa? An exploration of the roles of origins, customary law, and legal integration pp. 208-233

Zhijun Gao, Yi Feng and Wanjun Jiang

The institutional improvement effects of China’s foreign infrastructure investment and its mechanisms: implications for the construction of the belt and road initiative pp. 234-258

Chen Yongjun, Yu Wenwen and Yiguo Chen

Assessing infrastructure and trade connectivity through network analysis evidence from BRI countries pp. 259-284

Sufrizul Husseini, Ahmed M Khalid and Gamini Premaratne

Tests of goods market integration between China and European countries: a nonlinear nonparametric approach pp. 285-299

Shu-Kam Lee, Lubanski Lam and Kai-Yin Woo

Financial sector development and industrialization: lessons and prospects for Ethiopia pp. 300-321

Hang Yu and Jiaqi Zhao

Volume 17, issue 1, 2024

Sustainable development in China: environmental governance and climate action pp. 1-2

Jianwei Xing

Environmental monitoring and enforcement in China: an economic perspective review pp. 3-25

Ye Lyu and Lin Yang

Biodiversity in China: challenges, efforts and prospects pp. 26-39

Yuanning Liang and Shilong Zhuang

The role of government social media in enhancing environmental governance pp. 40-55

Huyang Chang, Yixuan Li and Mengdi Liu

Does regional carbon market construction promote urban carbon emission efficiency?—taking Fujian carbon emissions trading system as an example pp. 56-77

Chuanwang Sun and Xuguang Zuo

The environmental benefit of tax enforcement: evidence from China pp. 78-96

Yu Luo, Ming-ang Zhang and Sihan Zhang

The impact of ozone pollution on stroke hospitalization pp. 97-115

Lyuxiu Li, Chao Ma, Wei Xu and Xin Zhang

Extreme Weather and Complaints: Evidence from Chinese Netizens pp. 116-136

Yajie Han and Hongjia Zhu

Volume 16, issue 3, 2023

Coordinated economic, energy and environment development across China from 2001 to 2020 pp. 241-255

Wen-Wen Zhang, Basil Sharp, Bin Zhao, Yu Gu, Nan-Xi Fang, Yue-Ran Hu, Yang Ma, Xin-Chen Shi, Li-Jun Liu, Sheng-Yue Li, Shu-Xiao Wang and Ya-Zhou Liu

The heterogeneous effect of administrative level of cities on energy efficiency: a panel study of China pp. 256-271

Daqian Shi and Kai Hu

Digital economy and carbon emission reduction: evidence from China pp. 272-301

Dongfa Feng, Yan Shen, Xuanli Xie and Yiping Huang

Macroeconomic implications of China’s dual carbon goals pp. 302-311

He Xiaobei

Digital transformation and corporate performance: evidence from China pp. 312-334

Shiguang Li, Zheng Yang and Yixiang Tian

Impacts of population aging on the quantity and quality of pharmaceutical innovation: evidence from OECD countries pp. 335-353

Ke Shen and Zhenyi Huang

Volume 16, issue 2, 2023

Introduction by the guest editor pp. 101-103

Jintao Xu

Long-term forecast and policy discussion on China’s carbon emissions pp. 104-120

Min Wang

Carbon neutrality and renewable energy development in China pp. 121-138

Feng Song and Ao Sun

Development of the electric vehicle industry in China pp. 139-184

Jianwei Xing, Xiyuan Liu and Yushuai Zhang

The potential of China’s ecosystems in meeting the carbon neutrality goal: evidence from the forest sector pp. 185-202

Yuanyuan Yi and Jintao Xu

Carbon emission trading systems: a review of systems across the globe and a close look at China’s national approach pp. 203-216

Xianling Long and Lawrence H. Goulder

Estimating the CO2 marginal abatement cost and implications for climate policies in China’s industrial sector: A firm-level analysis pp. 217-239

Xing Chen, Xuan Wang, Tianyang Xi and Jintao Xu

Volume 16, issue 1, 2023

Understanding China’s road to common prosperity: background, definition and path pp. 1-13

Shiyun Li

A portrait of China’s economic transformation: from manufacturing to services pp. 14-27

Bin Zhang, He Zhu and Jiajia Zhang

Optimal public debt under demographic changes in China pp. 28-43

Lixin Sun

Is there a J-curve under COVID-19 effects pp. 44-62

Mortaza Ojaghlou and Erginbay Uğurlu

Market expectation management and renminbi exchange rate policy under depreciation pressure pp. 63-79

Mei Li

Impacts of health insurance on health care utilization and health behaviors among older people in China pp. 80-99

Qingyuan Xue and Nopphol Witvorapong

Statement of Retraction: Why did they get in trouble? The influence of firm characteristics and institutional distance in the case of Chinese outward foreign direct investment pp. 100-100

The Editors