nature of employment in urban China. The system of allocated, lifelong jobs (the iron rice bowl) that had previously … in China appears not to have been researched, no doubt because there was so little until recently. Using an urban …

China’s state-owned banks have historically funded money-losing state enterprises as a way of maintaining employment …, focusing on the largest banks, which are being reformed to increase their competitiveness following China’s 2001 commitment to …

China’s economic transformation is proceeding at different rates across different regions and sectors, and China’s most … implications of these internal and international productivity disparities for China’s ability to sustain rapid economic growth …. When China’s GDP catches up to U.S. GDP, Chinese living standards still will be only one quarter those of the United States …

China’s investment rate is one of the highest in the world, a fact that leads one to suspect that the return to capital … in China must be quite low. Using data from China’s national accounts, this paper estimates the return to capital in … China. We find that the aggregate annual return to capital averaged 25 percent during 1978-93, fell during 1993-98, and has …

This article investigates the causes of the deflation which occurs in China since 1998. The analysis is based on a … is that the slowing down of inflation and the fall of prices are chiefly explained by China economic policy. Moreover and …

This article investigates the impact that the real exchange rate appreciation in China has exerted on productivity …

China experiences rapid growth in urbanization. This paper investigates whether openness may, ceteris paribus, partly …

supply and inflation in China. A model presents provincial credit growth and inflation as a positive function of the …