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China's Great Leap: Forward or Backward? Anatomy of a Central Planning Disaster
An, Mark Yuying; Li, Wei; Yang, Dennis Tao - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
The Great Leap Forward (GLF) disaster, characterized by a collapse of grain output, and the associated famine in China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789139
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Soviet power plus electrification: what is the long-run legacy of communism?
Carlin, Wendy; Schaffer, Mark E; Seabright, Paul - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
Two decades after the end of central planning, we investigate the extent to which the advantages bequeathed by planning in terms of high investment in physical infrastructure and human capital compensated for the costs in allocative inefficiency and weak incentives for innovation. We assemble...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083892
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Guide to Reform of Higher Education: A European Perspective
Jacobs, Bas; van der Ploeg, Frederick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
Although there are exceptions, most European universities and institutions of higher education find it difficult to compete with the best universities in the Anglo-Saxon world. Despite the Bologna agreement and the ambitions of the Lisbon agenda, European universities are in need of fundamental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005067399
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The Institutional Causes of China's Great Famine, 1959-61
Meng, Xin; Qian, Nancy; Yared, Pierre - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
This paper investigates the institutional causes of China's Great Famine. It presents two empirical findings: 1) in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008642871
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Reform Without Losers: An Interpretation of China's Dual-Track Approach to Transition
Lau, Lawrence J; Qian, Yingyi; Roland, Gérard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
worked in product and labour markets in China’s economic reform in practice. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504255
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One Third of the World's Growth and Inequality
Quah, Danny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
This Paper studies growth and inequality in China and India – two economies that account for a third of the world … countries. For personal income inequalities in a China-India universe, the forces assuming first-order importance are …
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The Limits of Career Concerns in Federalism: Evidence from China
Persson, Petra; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
Performance-based promotion schemes in administrative hierarchies have limitations. Chinese provincial leaders, despite facing strong career concerns, make different policy decisions depending on their career backgrounds. Provincial party secretaries who rose from low to high positions within...
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A DSGE Model of China
Dai, Li; Minford, Patrick; Zhou, Peng - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
We use available methods for testing macro models to evaluate a model of China over the period from Deng Xiaoping …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083573
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Trade liberalization and Embedded Institutional Reform: Evidence from Chinese Exporters
Khandelwal, Amit; Schott, Peter K.; Wei, Shang-Jin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
If trade barriers are managed by inefficient institutions, trade liberalization can lead to greater-than-expected gains. We examine Chinese textile and clothing exports before and after the removal of externally imposed quotas. Both the surge in export volumes and the decline in prices after the...
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US Special Safeguard on Imports of Tires from China: Imposing Pain for Little Gain
Charnovitz, Steve; Hoekman, Bernard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
In 2009, the United States imposed additional tariffs for a three-year period on imports of automotive tires from China … under a special-safeguard provision included in China’s Protocol of Accession to the WTO. China challenged the measure in … in which an accession protocol was used successfully as a defense; and the first that China lost as a complaining party …
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