Chapter from: 'Rising Inequality in China: Challenge to a Harmonious Society', edited by Shi Li, Hiroshi Sato and Terry …

This paper examines how left-behind children influence return migration in China. We first present a simple …

This paper analyzes the impact of the Sloping Land Conversion Program (SLCP) on rural labor migration in China. We use …

This paper examines how left-behind children influence migration duration in China. We first present a simple …

One argument for floating the Chinese renminbi (RMB) is to insulate China's monetary policy from the US effect. However … US dollar, China has alternative measures to retain its policy independence and de-link its interest rates from the US … rate. In other words, the argument for a flexible RMB to insulate China's monetary policy from the US effect is not …

capital stock is accounted for. Thus, the China-US trade balance should respond to real exchange rate and relative income …

We investigate the empirical determinants of China's outward direct investment (ODI). It is found that China … developed and developing countries, there is evidence that a) both market seeking and resources seeking motives drive China …'s ODI, b) the Chinese exports to developing countries induce China's ODI, c) China's international reserves promote its ODI …

Since the 2008 global financial crisis, China has rolled out a number of initiatives to actively promote the … currency composition of China's international assets and liabilities. These factors include, among others, underlying valuation …

We study the empirical determinants of China's capital flight. In addition to the covered interest differential, our … regression exercise shows that China's capital flight is quite well explained by its own history and covered interest … differentials. The other possible determinants offer relatively small additional explanatory power. It is also found that China …