income trap as China exhausts the benefits of international technology transfer. IKC is productivity-enhancing among Chinese … China's IKC generates patents in China, but fewer than in major industrialized economies. Among domestically owned …

China is a boost in social status (vice-ministerial level) with negligible economic impact (US$30 monthly before 2009 …

in China. Our empirical approach implements concepts developed in Acemoglu (2010) and complements the approaches … change has influenced productivity growth in China, at least in the decade of the 1990s, but perhaps less so or not at all …

during China?s between 1988 and 2002. We pay special attention to the changing role of sorting by ability versus budget …-constraint effects as China?s education policy has changed from one in which the bulk of direct costs are paid by government for students …

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 …

returns to schooling for college graduates during China's reform between 1988 and 2002. We find that there were substantial …