relatively favorable demographic pattern in combination with market-oriented reforms and openness to the world economy, China is … on its ability to generate productivity increase, and domestic innovation will be an important part of it. In this paper …, we assess the likelihood that China can make the necessary transition. Using data on expenditure on research and …

sectoral pattern of multinational activity. Using detailed customs data from China, we show that foreign affiliates and joint …

biological desire for a marriage partner is strong. Empirically, we show that within China, those regions with a faster increase …

China's high corporate savings rate is commonly claimed to be a key driver for the country's large current account …

China experiences an increasingly severe relative surplus of men in the pre-marital age cohort. The existing literature …

This paper is the first chapter in the Oxford Companion to the Economics of China (Oxford University Press, forthcoming …). Rather than trying to summarize other contributors' views, we provide our own perspectives on the Economics of China …--the past experience and the future prospects. Our reading of China's economic development over the past 35 years raises two …

The high and rising household savings rate in China is not easily reconciled with the traditional explanations that …

Based on a survey that we designed and that covers a stratified random sample of 12,400 firms in 120 cities in China … regions and sectors. By our calculation, if China succeeds in allocating its capital more efficiently, it could reduce its …

China and America's other trading partners manipulate their exchange rates, and (b) the nature of the Chinese exchange rate … bilateral deficit, though other variables also turn out to be quite important. On the issue of China's de facto exchange rate …