Showing papers in "China Economic Review in 2008"

TL;DR: This paper examined the influence of ownership type, size, risk profile, profitability and key environmental changes on the bank efficiency using a Tobit regression and found that profit efficiency levels are well below those of cost efficiency, which suggests that the most important inefficiencies are on the revenue side.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors investigated the relationship between environmental pollution and economic growth in China based on the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis, using Chinese provincial data over 1985-2005, and found that panel cointegration estimation is preferable for all pollutants except for solid wastes.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used data envelopment analysis (DEA) to examine the relative efficiency in the production of research of 109 Chinese regular universities in 2003 and 2004, and found that mean research efficiency is higher in comprehensive universities compared to specialist universities, and in universities located in the coastal region compared to those in the western region of China.

TL;DR: The authors found that in areas with median incomes that are more than twice the poverty line, migration is associated with investment in housing and other consumer durables that is 20% higher than the average.

TL;DR: In this article, a panel dataset of 29 provinces in China was used to analyze the productivity growth in China's agricultural sector over the period 1990-2003, and the output-oriented Malmquist productivity indexes and their decomposition using a sequential data envelopment analysis approach.

TL;DR: In this article, a dataset of Chinese industry specific emissions for a variety of pollutants between 1997 and 2003 was used to provide the first study of its kind for China, finding an industry's emissions to be a positive function of energy use and human capital intensity and a negative function of its productivity and R&D expenditure.

TL;DR: In this article, a meta-frontier analysis is used to examine technical efficiency and technology gap in China's agriculture, showing that although the eastern counties have the highest efficiency scores with respect to the regional frontier but the northeastern region leads in terms of agricultural production technology nationwide.

TL;DR: For instance, China has rapidly emerged as a major player on the global economic scene as a result of economic reforms and progressive trade liberalization since 1978 as discussed by the authors, and has registered annual average GDP growth rates of around 9% and a spectacular expansion of external trade of more than 15% a year.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the impact of land fragmentation on variable production costs of rice farmers in three villages in Jiangxi Province, P.R. China, and concluded that land consolidation programs can only contribute to the joint policy goals of increasing agricultural production capacity and reducing the rural labor surplus, if such programs are accompanied by measures aimed at creating alternative market opportunities and at providing appropriate off-farm employment opportunities.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the effects of knowledge capital and spillover on regional economic growth in China and found that knowledge capital, both of R&D capital and technology imports contribute significantly, with similar impact, to regional economic development.

TL;DR: Li et al. as mentioned in this paper developed a corporate governance index (CGI) to measure the overall quality of corporate governance and disclosure practices of the 100 largest Chinese listed firms in 2004.

TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of the reform program on the performance of listed companies was analyzed by analyzing the impact the tradable share proportion and the government-owned share proportion had on firm performance immediately prior to the reform commencing.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report a survey of 140 Wenzhou-based footwear enterprises of various scales, and use this information to examine the driving forces behind the dramatic rural industrial growth seen in this region.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors employed a panel unit root, panel cointegration and Granger causality testing approach to test Wagner's law of increasing state activity using panels of Chinese provinces.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined linkages between China's exports and domestic energy consumption and argued that, while exports place less demand on domestic energy resources than might be expected given export volumes, exports are the largest source of energy demand growth in China.

TL;DR: In this paper, a bottom-up computable general equilibrium model of the Chinese economy, SinoTERM, is proposed to analyze the regional economic impacts of region-specific shocks, such as major construction projects or investments in health and education sectors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the socioeconomic patterns of private entrepreneurs regarding the choice of formal or informal finance, using survey data from Chengdu, China, were examined using the logit and ordered logit model to examine the hypothesised factors.

TL;DR: The authors used the Markov transition matrix to capture the dynamics embodied in the data and to produce corresponding ergodic distributions, which showed that the distribution of per capita income across Chinese provinces has become bi-modal over the period of 1952-2003.

TL;DR: In this article, the impacts of real exchange rates between the renminbi and the US dollar on the trade between the two countries were examined and the export equations were estimated using the quarterly data from 1995Q1 to 2006Q2.

TL;DR: The authors used multivariate GARCH techniques to study volatility spillovers between the Chinese non-deliverable forward market and seven of its Asia-Pacific counterparts over the period January 1998 to March 2005.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper presented a multiple bounded discrete choice household survey model to collect and analyze information about the acceptability of different water prices by different types of households, as well as households' willingness to pay for water service improvement.

TL;DR: This article examined the extent to which employers shift the burden of compliance with social security obligations back to employees in the form of lower wages using a fixed effects panel model using data on a subset of the firms audited in both years.

TL;DR: The authors showed that direct exports from Chinese ports and Chinese exports through third countries account for much of the discrepancy relative to trade flows involving Hong Kong, and some robust correlates for the discrepancy relate to valuation issues, U.S. tariffs, and re-exporting through the United States itself.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the Kaminsky-Lizondo-Reinhart (KLR) approach to conduct an ex-post study of the probabilities of China suffering a currency crisis during the period of January 1991 to December 2004.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper analyzed the socioeconomic effects of population displacement from dam development using the Three Gorges Dam as a case study, and provided a detailed economic profile of the Nu River area, arguing that poor farmers from disparate language groups are more likely to face extreme vulnerabilities in the resettlement process.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors study the fiscal relations between central and local governments embedded in a vertical control system with local officials appointed by the central government, and explore how such issues as fiscal decentralization, local accountability and regional disparities interact with the stringency of the vertical control systems.

TL;DR: Li et al. as discussed by the authors compared the cash dividend policy of Chinese firms listed in Hong Kong and on the Mainland and found that firms that have higher managerial membership on the board tend to pay lower cash dividends.

TL;DR: Li et al. as mentioned in this paper found that the effectiveness of local protectionist policies is limited by market competition, specifically, competition from foreign-invested firms operating in China and foreign imports.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the determinants of rural-urban migration paying special attention to the role of human capital externalities in the rural sector and found that human capital exerts positive external effects on the likelihood for a rural resident to choose off-farm employment and on labor income.