We discuss business cycles in ancient China. Data on Ancient China business cycles are sparse and incomplete and so our … years for OECD countries and with major focus on the 1990's. Here we also probe material on Ancient China to see what is …

research on China. Second, we document, through various empirical methods, the robust findings about striking patterns of trend … offers a constructive framework for studying China's modern macroeconomy …

institutional and structural changes that China has undergone. We find that increases in bank reserve requirements reduce economic … account. Overall, our results indicate that the monetary policy transmission channels in China have moved closer to those of …

fluctuations of China.Institutional subscribers to the NBER working paper series, and residents of developing countries may …

China’s real estate has been a key engine of its sustained economic expansion. This paper argues, however, that even …

Can standard business-cycle methodology be applied to China? In this chapter, we address this question by examining the … macroeconomic time series and identifying dimensions in which China differs from economies (such as Canada and the U.S.) that are … typically the subject of business-cycle research. We show that naively applying the standard business-cycle tools to China is no …