China is now the world's second largest economy, and it is expected to overtake the United States to become the largest … by 2020. What are the implications for the global environment and climate change if China surpasses the United States …? There are major concerns with China's rapid rise because its economic and industrial structure is increasingly dependent on …

”, indicating that taking a relatively good position benefits people in the Chinese society. RD is also a pressing issue for China … reviews key measures of RD and empirical findings for China. I also discuss some of the most pressing policy issues with …

-wave census-type panel data in 18 villages in rural western China, two identification strategies, instrumental variable and …

Even though surface water has been polluted almost everywhere in China, few economic valuation studies have been … conducted to value water quality changes. This paper reports an economic valuation study conducted in Yunnan, China, which …

As China has rapidly emerged as one of the world’s largest investors abroad, there has been a hectic debate in the … whether this is the case. The study uses a panel dataset covering 155 countries, including 33 in the OECD, where China had … invested during 2003-09. This is by far the most comprehensive dataset of China’s outward foreign direct investment (OFDI). A …

This paper accounts for China’s economic growth since 1980 in a unified endogenous growth model in which a sequencing … of physical capital accumulation, human capital accumulation and innovation drives the rise in China’s aggregate income … can generate a trajectory that accords well with the different stages of development in China. …

The recent increase in Chinese house prices has led to concerns that China is vulnerable to asset price shocks. In this … disconnected from fundamentals. Thus, the evidence for speculative house price bubbles in China is in general weak. …