Weak institutions ought to deter foreign direction investment (FDI), and mass media stories highlight China …'s institutional deficiencies, yet China is now one of the world's largest FDI destinations. This incongruity characterizes China …'s paradoxical growth. Cross-country regressions show that China's FDI inflow is not exceptionally large, given the quality of its …

sustainability of both China' export and overall economic growth may be questionable if inward FDI plateaus in the future …This paper presents assesses of the contribution of inward FDI to China's recent rapid economic growth using a two … Chinese economy. These enterprises account for over 50% of China's exports and 60% of China's imports. Their share in Chinese …

This paper analyzes the relative importance of the major factors underlying the post-1978 increase in China …

This paper presents numerical simulation results that suggest that China can both reduce its trade imbalance and … switching is thus a possibility for China to receive a double benefit, rebalancing trade with a welfare gain. This has … export rebates are given. Previous VAT literature stresses the neutrality of tax basis switches, which simply reflect moving …

human capital to China's economic growth. The results indicate that human capital plays a much more important role in China … enrollment in China increased nearly fivefold between 1997 and 2007) while growth rates of GDP are little changed over the period … that there have been decreased in the efficiency of inputs usage in China or worsened misallocation of physical and human …

We document and discuss the implications of a sharp increase in the regional dispersion of skill premia in China in … of China's integration into the global economy plays a significant and regionally concentrated role in the second period …