China Program Working Papers

• Paper No. 342 The Dynamics of Urban Poverty in China
  Niny Khor and John Pencavel, May 2007
  
  
• Paper No. 341 Income Inequality and Income Mobility Among Urban and Rural Households of China and the United States
  Niny Khor and John Pencavel, May 2007
  
  
• Paper No. 340 Household Income Inequality, Income Mobility, and Labor Supply in China and the United States
  Niny Khor and John Pencavel, September 2007
  
  
• Paper No. 335 Chinese Energy Strategy and Policy: Fiscal Implications for the Ministry of Finance
  Nicholas C. Hope and Jinghui Li, July 2007
  
  
• Paper No. 322 Why China Should Keep its Dollar Peg: A Historical Perspective from Japan
  Ronald McKinnon, May 2007
  
  
• Paper No. 317 Rural Taxation and Local Governance Reform in China's Economic Transition: Origins, Policy Responses and Remaining Challenges
  Justin Yifu Lin, Ran Tao and Mingxing Liu, March 2007
  
  
• Paper No. 315 Fiscal Decentralization in China and India: Competitive, Cooperative or Market Preserving Federalism
  Nirvikar Singh, February 2007
  
  
• Paper No. 313 China, the U.S., and Sustainability: Perspectives Based on Comprehensive Wealth
  Kenneth J. Arrow, Partha Dasgupta, Lawrence H. Goulder, Kevin Mumford and Kirsten Oleson, January 2007
  
  
• Paper No. 312 Genetically Modified Seeds and Decommodification: An Analysis Based on the Chinese Cotton Case
  Michel A.C. Fok, Weili Liang, Donato Romano and Pan A. Yotopoulos, January 2007
  
  
• Paper No. 310 Will China Eat Our Lunch or Take Us to Dinner? ­ Simulating the Transition Paths of the U.S., EU, Japan, and China
  Hans Fehr, Sabine Jokisch and Laurence J. Kotlikoff, January 2007
  
  
• Paper No. 307 ICT Penetration and Economic Growth in Developing Asia: Issues and Policy Implications
  Khuong Vu, December 2006
  
  
• Paper No. 305 Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations in China
  Annalisa Fedelino and Teresa Ter-Minassian, December 2006
  
  
• Paper No. 303 A Shift from Market-Driven to Institution-Driven Regionalization in East Asia
  Shujiro Urata, November 2006
  
  
• Paper No. 302 India and China: Trade and Foreign Investment
  Arvind Panagariya, November 2006
  
  
• Paper No. 297 Higher Education and Economic Development: India, China, and the 21st Century
  Martin Carnoy, October 2006
  
  
• Paper No. 296 Control of Infectious Disease: Challenges to China’s Public Health System
  Wei Yu, Ming Wu and Alan Garber, October 2006
  
  
• Paper No. 295 Estimates of U. S.-China Trade Balances in Terms of Domestic Value-Added
  Lawrence J. Lau, Xikang Chen, Leonard K. Cheng, K. C. Fung, Jiansuo Pei, Yun-Wing Sung, Zhipeng Tang, Yanyan Xiong, Cuihong Yang and Kunfu Zhu, October 2006
  
  
• Paper No. 293 Corporate Governance and Property Rights Infrastructure: The Experiences of Hong Kong and Lessonsfor China
  Andrew Sheng, Xiao Geng and Wang Yuan, October 2006
  
  
• Paper No. 292 Developments and Prospects for Rural Finance in China
  David Scott and Wang Jun, September 2006
  
  
• Paper No. 291 Property Rights and 'Original Sin' in China: Transaction Costs, Wealth Creation, and Property Rights Infrastructure
  Andrew Sheng, Xiao Geng and Wang Yuan, September 2006
  
  
• Paper No. 288 Antitrust in China 2006: The Problem of Incentive Compatibility
  Bruce M. Owen, Su Sun and Wentong Zheng, July 2006
  
  
• Paper No. 287 Incremental Reform and Distortions in Product and Factor Markets in China
  Xiaobo Zhang and Kong-Yam Tan, July 2006
  
  
• Paper No. 286 China, India and the World Economy
  T.N. Srinivasan , July 2006
  
  
• Paper No. 284 Firm Ownership and FDI Spillovers in China
  Galina Hale and Cheryl Long , July 2006
  
  
• Paper No. 282 The Multitask Theory of State Enterprise Reform: Empirical Evidence from China
  Chong-En Bai, Jiangyong Lu and Zhigang Tao, May 2006
  
  
• Paper No. 281 Property Rights Protection and Access to Bank Loans: Evidence from Private Enterprises in China
  Chong-En Bai, Jiangyong Lu and Zhigang Tao, May 2006
  
  
• Paper No. 280 Economic Returns to Communist Party Membership:
  Evidence from Urban Chinese Twins
  Hongbin Li, Pak Wai Liu, Ning Ma and Junsen Zhang, May 2006
  
  
• Paper No. 279 Is There Evidence of FDI Spillover on Chinese Firms’ Productivity and Innovation?
  Galina Hale and Cheryl Long, April 2006
  
  
• Paper No. 278 Adjusted Estimates of United States-China Bilateral Trade Balances—An Update
  K. C. Fung, Lawrence J. Lau and Yanyan Xiong, April 2006
  
  
• Paper No. 277 China and the World Bank: How a Partnership Was Built
  Pieter Bottelier, April 2006
  
  
• Paper No. 276 Reforming China’s Banking System: How Much Can Foreign Strategic Investment Help?
  Nicholas Hope and Fred Hu, April 2006
  
  
• Paper No. 272 China's Exchange Rate Appreciation in the Light of the Earlier Japanese Experience
  Ronald McKinnon, March 2006
  
  
• Paper No. 271 Wages and Returns to Education in Chinese Cities
  Dennis T. Yang, February 2006
  
  
• Paper No. 263 Income Disparities and Income Mobility in China
  Niny Khor and John Pencavel, October 2005
  
  
• Paper No. 259 Exchange Rates and Trade Balances under the Dollar Standard
  Hong Qiao, September 2005
  
  
• Paper No. 247 Accrual Reform in the Public Sector in China
  Yinghua Shi, August 2005
  
  
• Paper No. 245 Making Monetary Policy Work in China: A Report from the Money Market Front Line
  Stephen Green, July 2005
  
  
• Paper No. 244 The Chinese Approach to Capital Inflows: Patterns and Possible Explanations
  Eswar Prasad and Shang-Jin Wei, April 2005
  
  
• Paper No. 233 Foreign Direct Investment in China and East Asia
  Busakorn Chantasasawat, K.C. Fung, Hitomi Iizaka and Alan Siu, November 2004
  
  
• Paper No. 232 The Privatization Two-Step at China's Listed Firms
  Stephen Green, November 2004
  
  
• Paper No. 219 Regional Decentralization and Fiscal Incentives: Federalism Chinese Style
  Hehui Jin, Yingyi Qian and Barry Weingast, July 2004