Real exchange rate and productivity in China

Sylviane Guillaumont Jeanneney () and Ping Hua ()
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Ping Hua: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique(CNRS)

No 200328, Working Papers from CERDI

Abstract: This article investigates the impact that the real exchange rate appreciation in China has exerted on productivity growth since 1994. We remind the arguments explaining a positive or a negative impact of a real appreciation on efficiency and on technical progress. DEA Malmquist indices of productivity growth and of its two components are calculated for twenty-nine Chinese provinces. The econometric estimation shows that the appreciation of the real exchange rate had an unfavourable effect on technical progress but a favourable effect on efficiency growth, and these two effects offset each other partially to give a lesser negative effect on productivity growth.

Keywords: China; DEA Malmquist index; Productivity; Real exchange rate. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 37
Date: 2003
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