China and the United States.  We construct a firm-level dataset by matching USPTO and SIPO patents to Chinese manufacturing … China are considerably younger, larger and substantially more export-oriented than firms patenting exclusively in China ….  Our study contributes to the debate on China's innovative prowess and its potential to transition from an imitator to an …

A specially designed household survey for rural China is used to analyse the determinants of aspirations for income … existence of a partial hedonic treadmill, and can help to explain why subjective well-being in China appears not to have risen …

This paper investigates the traits of the self-employed entrepreneurs in urban China, an economy rife with …

productivity of labour in China was marginally relevant in the pre-1978 period, but the picture has changed dramatically in the …

The paper examines the notion of a 'developmental state' and shows that China possesses the characteristics of a … developmental state.  It explains the political economy which generated such a state in China and in some other economies.  It … the question: can China's developmental state be sustained?  Conclusions are drawn for both China and other developing …

China during the reform period. It appears that the patent laws have produced a stock of patents, where the success rates of … which factors would explain innovation in China. We find the main determinants of patents to be R&D expenditure and foreign … laws in China have been associated with innovation that has accompanied economic growth despite imperfections in the legal …

economic devide betweeen rural and urban China, the rural and urban samples are analysed separately. The two main explanations …

The paper estimates cross-province growth regressions for China over the period of economic reform.  It first addresses … General-to-Specific approach, to consider a wide range of candidate predictors of growth in China.  The first-stage model … question: why has China, as a whole, and indeed all its provinces, grown so fast? …

In this paper we attempt to explore some indirect determinants of China's growth success including the degree of … selection, BMA and GETS, to consider a wide range of candidate predictors of growth in China.  Then variables flagged as being … productive efficiency have been an important part of the explanation for China's remarkable rate of growth. …