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This paper reviews recent literature on China's macroeconomic development, emphasizing the critical role of the … gradualist approach over the past four decades. Beyond China's structural transformation, we explore various aspects such as high … illustrates how China's gradual policy reforms, amidst highly imperfect financial markets, have effectively helped spur GDP growth …
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relatively favorable demographic pattern in combination with market-oriented reforms and openness to the world economy, China is …, we assess the likelihood that China can make the necessary transition. Using data on expenditure on research and …
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This paper studies growth and structural transformation of the Chinese economy from 1953 to 2012 through a lens of a two-sector growth model. The main goal of the paper is to provide a systematic analysis of both the pre-1978 reform and post-1978 reform periods in a unified framework. First, we...
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. This evidence suggests that intangible capital formation may play an important role in China's reform-driven transformation … no general assessment of its role in China's rapid economic growth. This paper seeks to fill this gap by estimating how … China's recent growth is then assessed using a growth accounting framework, and the results compared to similar findings for …
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Despite a vast accumulation of private capital, China is not embracing capitalism. Deceptively familiar capitalist … introduces the chapters comprising the NBER volume Capitalizing China (Fan and Morck, eds. 2012), which examine China's high … consider policy alternatives the CCP might consider if its goal is China's elevation into the ranks of high income countries …
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We find disparate trend variation in TFP and labor growth across major U.S. production sectors over the post-WWII period. When aggregated, these sector-specific trends imply secular declines in the growth rate of aggregate labor and TFP. We embed this sectoral trend variation into a dynamic...
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The positive association between the service sector share of output and per capita income is one of the best-known regularities in all of growth and development economics. Yet there is less than complete agreement on the nature of that association. Here we identify two waves of service sector...
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This paper analyzes the role of specialized high-skilled labor in the growth of the service sector as a share of the total economy. Empirically, we emphasize that the growth has been driven by the consumption of services. Rather than being driven by low-skill jobs, the importance of...
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The remarkable decline in macroeconomic volatility experienced by the U.S. economy since the mid-80s (the so-called Great Moderation) has been accompanied by large changes in the patterns of comovements among output, hours and labor productivity. Those changes are reflected in both conditional...
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Most industries go through a "shakeout" phase during which the number of producers in the industry declines. Industry output generally continues to rise, however, which implies a reallocation of capacity from exiting firms to incumbents and new entrants. Thus shakeouts seem to be classic...
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