This book discusses China's integration into the world economy, drawing on papers previously written by the editor. It … driving China's growth.While other books on China do not focus much on China's integration into the world economy, this book … provides technically strong analyses of key contributing factors to China's growth performance. It also highlights innovation …

This paper compares China's labor productivity growth across different regions and industries, and investigates how the … initial productivity gaps with the international frontier affect their subsequent productivity growth. Using data aggregated … from the firm level, the research yields overwhelming empirical evidence that during the period of 1995-2004 China has …

In this article, we investigate the relevance of structural change in country-wide productivity growth considering … within-country differences. For this purpose, we propose a two-step decomposition approach that accounts for differences …

In this paper we estimate the long-run relationship between regional total factor productivity, R&D, human capital and …-run equilibrium between productivity level and the three kinds of capital; among them, human capital turns out to have the strongest … impact on productivity. Regional productivity is found also to be positively affected by R&D activity and public …

growth in China, province-specific withdrawal strategies for the state sector have no effect on economic growth …

industrial productivity during China’s first two decades of economic reform. Using international and Chinese firm and industry … data over the period 1995-2004, we estimate a productivity growth-technology gap reaction function. We find that as China …This paper investigates the conditions that may auger a reversal of China’s increasingly unequal levels of regional …

decomposition of direct and indirect (spillover) total factor productivity (TFP) growth, as well as the gross direct and indirect …This study examines the spatial productivity and efficiency spillovers of Chinese provinces using a spatial Durbin … efficiency of the respective provinces. The estimated results show that spatial productivity and efficiency spillovers are …