With its transition to a market-oriented economy, China has gone through significant changes in health care delivery and financing systems in the last three decades. Since 1998, a new public health insurance program for urban employees, called Basic Medical Insurance Program (BMI), has been...

With the expanding of higher education in China from 1999, more and more youngsters are able to invest in higher education, resulting a high unemployment rate for higher education graduates and more and more graduates employed in non-graduate position, while the analysis upon risk and return to...

The health financing schemes is the foundation for the nation¡¯s health care system, and the health insurance is a main one of some options for financing health care. This article compares two health care financing schemes in urban areas before and after the health reform, and targets at the...

Based on the sample of 939 Chinese listed companies in the 40 former reformed batches, this paper investigates the effect of Chinese split share structure reform and its impact factors. First, considering Chinese split share structure reform as an event, an effect model is set up by means of the...

In this paper, the actual economy in Tianjin Municipal city are simulated with RBC model through introducing local government expenditure. From the works review and stylized facts, it is easy to find that government expenditure will have important influence on economy. Then this paper provides...

By using HS classification, the author has divided total agricultural products into 24 categories. The paper calculated the G-L intra-industry trade index, Br¨¹lhart marginal intra-industry trade index, and Thom & McDowell marginal industry trade index for each type of agricultural products...

Based on a massive collection of data, this paper tries to make a detailed comparison between the foreign trade development patterns of two export-oriented regional economies: the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta. It is shown that both of the deltas have made spectacular progress in...

This article employs recently developed unknown structural break tests to investigate intrinsic structural instability in China inflation dynamics over 1981¨C2007. In order to capture accurately the statistical nature of potential structural beak, we use asymptotic p-value function under the...

This paper seeks to examine the determinants of the profitability of the Chinese banking sector during the post-reform period of 2000¨C2005. The empirical findings from this study suggest that all the determinants variables have statistically significant impact on China banks profitability....

R&D investment is enterprises¡¯ strategy based on the market demand on innovative products and its production capacity for them. Enlarging market demand would spur the enterprises¡¯ R&D input and the enhancement of technology state in production ability could have a complex effect on less...