This study attempts a first causal examination of the role of state capacity in China's economic performance. Effective … the level of county governments in modern China. Our estimates indicate that state capacity significantly impacts economic … bureaucratic capacity measured by the number of public employees does not necessarily deliver better economic outcomes in China. We …

In this paper, we propose a political-economy model of China that explains both the rapid economic growth and frequent … rate of accidents that have occurred in China. The central government delegates authority to the local government to …

environment, using the intension of cross-strait relation in China as a study case by synthetic control method. The intense …

It has been widely recognized that China has had a large pool of surplus labour. However, despite its significant … points. It then applies the framework to China to study the labour absorption process and examines the implications of the …

improve their indigenous innovation and catch up with developed countries. Using data on China-based scientific publications … quantitative and qualitative growth of China’s indigenous science. Such findings have important implications for public policy … China lacks originality and indigenous innovation capability …

incomes from 1986 to 1999. Using a detailed household-level data set from rural China, we find robust evidence that initial …

investment transactions. Perhaps even more striking is the speed of China’s capital market growth. It took merely three decades … for China’s capital market to advance as the world’s second most meaningful market. Chinese firms—many of which are … obstructions, China’s illiberal governance system plays an important role in promoting market regularity, providing investors with …

data from China. We specify alternative measures of human capital and apply them to an enhanced growth model which we …

The inter-provincial economic gap in China is obvious and tends to expand, although it is still unclear why this occurs … to show that China's inter-provincial labor productivity demonstrated significant growth convergence between 1997 and … productivity level in China's provinces widened significantly, which can be largely attributed to the combined effects of …