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In this study, we explore the pattern of efficiency among enterprises in China’s 29 provinces across different … efficiency distributions, and conducting a bootstrapped truncated regression analysis. We find evidence of interesting … differences in efficiency levels among various ownership groups, especially for foreign and local ownership, which have different …
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This study attempts a first causal examination of the role of state capacity in China's economic performance. Effective state capacity connotes not just ability to extract tax from citizens but also the ability to convert taxes into public investment. Equally importantly, these capacities must...
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We use the establishment of Special Economic Zones in China to estimate the effect of economic reforms on GDP. A panel of 270 Chinese cities from 1988 to 2010 allows us to exploit the variation in the establishment of zones across time and space. The results from our baseline...
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Institutional change has taken place gradually since 1978 for State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) in the Industrial Sector of China. In this paper we estimate the effect of deep reform (the right to hire and fire labour, buy and sell capital and operate on international markets) on the productivity...
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Institutional change has taken place gradually since 1978 for State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) in the Industrial Sector of China. In this paper we estimate the effect of deep reform (the right to hire and fire labour, buy and sell capital and operate on international markets) on the productivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319170
determine enterprise efficiency in the context of China’s transition. Contrast to the results of improving enterprise … efficiency rather than a convergence of firm’s efficiency as is expected from a competitive market. Similar to other studies …’ efficiency gap may arise from their historical legacy; enterprise reform characterised by profit retention program have improved …
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state property into a capitalist system, the neoliberal transition strategy and the state directed transition strategy …. Russia s transition since 1992 is examined as an example of the neoliberal approach, while China s transition since 1978 is … analyzed as an example of the state directed approach. The primary explanation for China s economically superior transition …
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The North Korean economy has been a statistical black hole for decades but is undergoing substantial transformations. Rapid post-war industrialisation was not sustained beyond the mid-1960s and South Korea’s economy far outpaced North Korea’s during the next three decades, during which trend...
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structural problems. High growth in many of the low-income transition countries should not divert attention away from the …
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structural problems. High growth in many of the low-income transition countries should not divert attention away from the …
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