Economic Research Journal (Monthly) Vol.44 No.5 May, 2009 |
• Global Imbalance,Financial Crisis and Chinas Economic Recovery |
Abstrat:This paper examines the inherent relationship between the global imbalance and financial crisis from historical review and literature survey. Our paper sets up a two-country model featured by monetary hegemony showing that the financial crisis of 2008 is closely interrelated with the United States expansionary monetary policy and the hegemony of U.S. dollar. This paper then analyses the impact of crisis and the policy response,focusing on the preconditions for Chinas economic recovery. Through international comparison,we argue that one of the Great Depressions lessons is the exorbitant government intervention in some area and the necessary condition for Chinas revival is economic flexibility,namely,resilient market mechanism. |
…………………………Research Group(4) |
• Development Potential Comparison between China and India |
Abstrat:Chinese and Indian reforms gain great success and become the important driving force to world economy. However,different factors contribution to economic growth decided the different developing models of China and India. Chinese high-speed growth comes its high level investment,embodied technological change,the promotion of labor force focused department. At the same time,India relied more on the export of service department brought by technological change. Using each others developing models for reference to China and India is a beneficial attempt. Chinese developing model is facing great challenge although China gains great success at present. As a result,the developing potential of China is inferior to India obviously. However,TFP can not reflect this point and improved neo-classical technological change model testifies this aspect. If China wants to maintain sustainable development potential,the growth model transition is essential. |
…………………………Zhang Yong,Wang Xi and Gu Mingming(21) |
• Mechanism for Agriculture Development with Labor Selective Transfer |
Abstrat:Selective transfer of the labor force presents a new challenge on the theory of agricultural development of Lewis,Fei and Ranis,which only exists in a static sense. A further need of deepening human capital in agriculture is given as a necessary condition for the agricultural sectors successful development. In a dynamic context,agricultural development of the new interdependent condition,i.e. deepening of human capital,may be endogenous in the process of selective transfer in certain conditions. We establish a labor transfer model,in which the human capital is involved endogenously. The aim of agricultural development policy is to strengthen the dynamic mechanism of increasing human capital based on improvement of labor market. |
…………………………Guo Jianxiong and Li Zhijun(31) |
• Parental Income and Return to College Education in Urban China |
Abstrat:In this paper,we examine the influence of parental income on the return to college education in a framework of heterogeneous returns to education among individuals. The Roy model is employed to correct the ability bias and to estimate the potential incomes from obtaining a college education and a high school education for each individual. We use the 2002 CHIP data and find strong evidence that the return to college education increases with parental income. Based on these findings,we discuss the efficiency and sustainability of National College Loan Policy and the possible measures that government may take to increase the return to college education for students from low-income families. |
…………………………Yuan Cheng and Zhang Lei(42) |
• The Impact of FDI Characteristics on Economic Growth in China:An Empirical Research |
Abstrat:This paper constructs a growth model in which the quantity and characteristics of FDI are introduced. We test this model through panel estimation using provincial data in China from 1999 to 2006.We find that:1The FDI and domestic investment both have positive effect on economic growth,but the effect of FDI is larger than that of domestic investment; 2 Different characteristics of FDI have different effects on economic growth:the scale of single FDI and the proportion of FDI invested in manufacture have positive impacts on economic growth,but high export-oriented foreign-funded enterprises and high-tech foreign-funded enterprises have negative impact on economic growth; 3 There are no interact effects between the quantity of FDI and the scale of single FDI or the export proportion of FDI,but significant negative interact effect between the quantity of FDI and the proportion of FDI in the investment of manufacture,showing they are substitutive relation. There is a significant positive relation between the quantity of FDI and the technical level of FDI. And the technical level of FDI must meet a critical value if the effect of the quantity of FDI on economic growth is positive. |
…………………………Guo Xibao and Luo Zhi(52) |
• Strategic Restructuring and Policy Adjustment of Chinese Processing Trade |
Abstrat:The paper analyzes the problems on strategic restructuring and policy adjustment of Chinese processing trade. The research is important for us to deeply understand the key role that processing trade acts in national economy. As to solving processing trade enterprises predicaments under the financial crisis,consummating processing trade policy and promoting the transformational way of foreign trade growth,the research also has an important significance on theory and practice. The paper finds that the processing trade is highly related with Chinas economic growth,industrial competitive power,employment and technology progress,and long-term co-integration existed. The relationships between the above variables are robust after Granger causes and effects examination. Through further on-the-spot investigation and study on Chinas typical processing trade area – knitting processing trade enterprises of Ningbo,Zhejiang,the paper deeply analyzes the problems on Chinese processing trade enterprises. Finally,some advice and policy suggestions are put forward. |
…………………………Yan Guoqing ,Sun Qi,Zhong Hongsheng ,Zhao Na and Jing Xian(66) |
• Environmental Dumping and International Unionized Oligopolies |
Abstrat:This paper studies whether environmental dumping is a robust environmental policy recommendation toward international unionized oligopolies. We introduce trade unions to Barrett 1994 model and show that:i When firms compete as Cournot competitors,governments engage in environmental dumping policies; and the extent to which environmental taxes deviate from the Pivogian taxes is bigger than in the case where there do not exist trade unions. ii When firms compete as Bertrand competitors,optimal environmental policies are determined by the interaction between trade unions bargaining strength and the degree of product differentiation. If trade unions bargaining strength is sufficient; or fixing trade unions bargaining strength,if the degree of product differentiation is sufficient,governments engage in environmental dumping policies. iii These imply that environmental dumping could be a robust policy recommendation toward international unionized oligopolies. |
…………………………Ma Jie and Duan Qi(79) |
• Institutional Environment,Transaction Rule and Efficiency of Corporate Control Transfer |
Abstrat:The legal rules governing the transfer of corporate control include market rule MR and equal opportunity rule. Market rule is the primary rule of corporate control transfers in China. This paper suggests that institutional environment has crucial influence on the transaction rule.The same rule under different environment institutes different effect. Accounting for the difference of governance environment,this paper establishes a comparative cost model for analyzing the costs of market rule under different governance environments. Our analyses suggest that under a poor governance environment,the market rule incurs high transaction cost. Improvement of institutional environment may reduce transaction cost and raise efficiency of resource allocation. Based on the data of sales of corporate control in China,we find the evident to support the hypothesis. Our research supports the view that without the coupling of institution environment and rule,the trade will incur high transaction costs,which reduce the efficiency of resource allocation. |
…………………………Li Shanmin and Zhang Yuanchun(92) |
• Resale Option,Inflation Illusion and the Chinese Stock Market Bubbles |
Abstrat:The stock bubble is defined as the stock price deviation from its real value which is determined by its future cash flow and discount rate. Stock resale option induced by heterogeneous beliefs about future cash flow and inflation illusion whereby investors mistakenly use normal discounted rates can provide coherent explanations of the bubble theoretically. Using the Chinese A shares data from 1997 to 2007,based on the bubble estimated by dynamic residual income value model,we found that the resale option and the inflation illusion do provide explanation for Chinese stock market bubble,and the resale option has more explanation power. The results coincide with the two basic characteristics of China stock market——heterogeneous beliefs and restricted short sales. |
…………………………Chen Guojin,Zhang Yijun and Wang Jing(106) |
• Financial Ecological Environment,the Ownership Nature of the Ultimate Controller,the Governance Effect of Financing Debts |
Abstrat:This paper explores the relation among financial ecological environment,the ownership nature of the ultimate controller and the governance effect of financing debts by using the debt restructuring data of listed companies during 2001—2004. We document that,1 Compared with the listed companies located in the area where the financial ecological environment is relatively bad hereafter,FENV-B,the positive relation between financing debt and the probability of debt restructuring is weaker in the listed companies located in the area where the financial ecological environment is relatively good hereafter,FENV-G. 2 In the FENV-B,compared with the non-state-controlled listed companies hereafter,NSCEs,the positive relation between financing debt and the probability of debt restructuring is weaker in the state-controlled listed companies hereafter,SCEs. 3 In the FENV-G,as to NSCEs,the relation between financing debt and the probability of debt restructuring is negative,but when it comes to SCEs,the relation is reversed to be positive. Our findings suggest that the financial ecological environment and the ownership nature of the ultimate controller have different effects on the governance role of the financing debt in listed companies. As a result,the reform of government objectives,government functions,and the ownership structure of the SCEs is not less important than the improvement of the financial ecological environment. |
…………………………Xie Deren and Chen Yunsen(118) |
• The Fluctuations of Chinas Energy Efficiency:Theoretical Explains,Numerical Simulations and Policy Experiments |
Abstrat:Based on the HP filtering analysis,the stylized facts and important influence of Chinas energy efficiency fluctuations are detected in the article,and then a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model is developed to describe the mechanism of energy efficiency change in the short run. This simple RBC model depending on the endogenous capital utilization as the key point,together with three exogenous shocks from total factor productivity,energy price and government expenditure,accounts for 81 and 97 percent of volatility of out-energy and capital-energy efficiency during 1978—2006 respectively. And the numerical experiments also show that the composite policy tools can regular the energy efficiency with the less welfare cost than the single one. This means that the diverse efforts to improve the energy efficiency,not only from the trend but also from the cyclical aspect,should be considered more seriously in the future. |
…………………………Wu Lixue(130) |
• The Level of Modern Chinas Financial Development |
Abstrat:The rapid development of financial and the formation of a modern financial system are the major characteristics in the process of the economic modernization. Based on the current study,the author discusses the process of financial development and its structural change in modern China from the quantitative index angle. The article proves that the modern Chinas rapid financial development was seen from 1921 to 1936,because every index in this time had the rapid enhancement and the optimization. However,due to very low starting point and the time is too short to maintain growth,until 1936,the Chinese finance developments level still fell behind on the whole main capitalist countries more than half centuries. |
…………………………Yan Hongzhong(143) |
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