This paper employs a fully nonparametric stochastic frontier model with time and individual effects to study technical efficiency in China's post-reform economy. The panel data cover China's thirty provinces for the period of 1985-2008. The empirical results show that the average output...

This paper employs a fully nonparametric stochastic frontier model with time and individual effects to study technical efficiency in China's post-reform economy. The panel data cover China's thirty provinces for the period of 1985–2008. The empirical results show that the average output...

By relaxing the two assumptions of constant returns to scale and perfect competition in the product market used by Solow (1957), this paper identifies a new decomposition of economic and productivity growth. The sources of economic growth are; adjusted economies of scales effect, weighted sum of...

This paper constructs China's capital stock, which is used in conjunction with a labor variable to estimate a Cobb-Douglas production function for the Chinese economy. Two panels of data are used one for capital formation and one for sources of investment finance. Both national and provincial...

This article examines the growth attributes of manufacturing industries in China for the sample period of 1999–2007. The output growth of manufacturing industries classified under four groups and four regions is decomposed into four components of input growth, scale effect, technical progress,...

By using the sources of investment and based on provincial data, this paper examines the efficiency performance of the four sources of total investment in fixed assets in China for the period 1985-1998: state budget appropriation, national bank loans, self-raised funds, and foreign investment....

This paper examines the economic performance of financial resources in China's provinces for the period 1985-1998. The empirical results indicate that different financial resources have different impacts on the economic growth. The growth of national bank loans and self-raised funds are...

This article attempts to account for China's economic growth in terms of labor, capital, and total factor productivity by estimating a Cobb-Douglas production function using official Chinese data. It is an extension of Gregory C. Chow's earlier work in 1993 and has two purposes: to find out...

This paper contributes to the globalization debate by studying the overall effect on growth of openness and indigenous factors. The empirical results show that the openness factors averagely promote growth whereas the indigeneity factors have a negative effect on growth. The conclusion is robust...

A loose financial policy through the provision of loans and fiscal subsidies to state-owned enterprises and households has long been practiced in China, though financial liberalization since the 1980s has revitalized banks and other institutions. By using provincial data, this paper attempts to...