Understanding TFP growth in inland regions of China: an empirical study of the effects of three factors

In this paper, we empirically examine the potential effects of international openness, domestic coastal-inland market integration, and human capital accumulation on TFP growth in inland provinces in China. By using a nonlinear technique as our main regression approach as well as an extended GMM method as robustness checks, we show that human capital accumulation plays an important role in promoting TFP growth in the inland provinces. Our results support the argument that the most important contribution of human capital to income growth lies not in its static, direct effect as an accumulable factor in the production function, but in its dynamic role in promoting TFP growth. Our regression results also provide evidence for the positive roles international openness and domestic coastal-inland market integration play in promoting TFP growth in inland provinces in China.     

汇率传导、人民币升值与通货膨胀的关联度

经济开放度在汇率传导过程中起着重要作用,考虑经济开放度后,汇率调整对国内通货膨胀的影响显著增强。研究表明,进口依存度与汇率传导效应正相关,金融开放度与汇率传导效应负相关。通过构建模型,进行实证分析,结果显示,我国的原材料购进价格指数、生产者价格指数和居民消费价格指数与进口依存度、金融开放度和人民币汇率波动关系密切。在现阶段的宏观经济形势下,人民币合理适度的升值有助于缓解国内的通货膨胀压力,促进我国经济内外部均衡发展。     

经济开放影响我国收入分配的实证研究

本文从实证方面分析了经济开放对我国收入分配的影响。研究结果表明,我国的经济开放度明显影响着劳资收入分配,其中进出口贸易对我国劳资收入分配的影响最为显著。不管是出口还是进口,都与劳动报酬占比的提高有着稳定的“负相关”关系。金融市场的开放则加剧了我国收入分配的不均。Granger检验证明了对外贸易和金融市场的开放都是我国劳...     

对外开放与中国制造业工资差距——基于劳动力供需模型的实证检验

选取1998—2006年中国26个省市的面板数据,利用结合劳动力供需的对外开放影响工资差距的理论模型,就对外开放对制造业熟练和非熟练工人工资差距的影响进行实证研究。研究发现:从全国样本看,外商直接投资有利于缩小制造业熟练与非熟练工人工资差距,而贸易开放与制造业熟练和非熟练工人工资差距则是一种倒"U"型的关系。在分地区讨论时,发现外商直接投资对中西部地区制造业熟练与非熟练工人工资差距的缩小作用要大于东部地区,贸易开放对中西部地区制造业熟练与非熟练工人工资差距存在显著的正向影响,而对东部地区的影响不显著,这进一步验证了上述倒"U"型关系的实证结果。     

长江三角洲对外开放的区域差异及成因分析

选择出口依存度和资本依存度2个指标构建对外开放度指数,对长江三角洲15个城市的对外开放度进行测算。结果表明,长江三角洲各市的对外开放度差异很大,可以划分为3个层次:高开放度城市(苏州、上海、宁波、无锡)、中等开放度城市(嘉兴、杭州、绍兴、南京、常州、南通)和低开放度城市(舟山、湖州、镇江、扬州、泰州)。造成长江三角洲对外开放度空间差异的主要因素是区位条件、经济基础和政策因素等。     

国内外创新开放度研究述评

开放式创新模式下,用以表征企业对外部开放程度的创新开放度是提升企业创新能力和绩效的关键。通过对国内外文献的查询和阅读,对创新开放度的内涵、度量方法、影响因素以及开放度与绩效关系的现有研究进行了系统梳理。从研究的内容、结论等方面指出了现存问题,提出了未来的研究方向,为后续研究提供了参考和借鉴。     

贸易开放与收入不平等——国际研究新进展

贸易开放与国民收入及其分配的关系历来是经济学界关注的重点领域。由于传统理论在解释现实问题时存在局限性,一些贸易可能影响收入不平等的新渠道引起了更多关注,主要包括异质性、离岸外包、隐性契约以及劳动力市场等。对相关研究进展进行梳理表明,新的研究模型设定更贴合现实,研究内容也有所拓展,研究角度更多从宏观向微观转变,从异质性、隐性契约等角度展开的研究将是未来主要方向。     

Openness,human capital and total factor productivity: evidence from China

This paper examines the drivers behind China's economic growth. In particular, it focuses on the channels of knowledge spillovers: human capital and openness to trade and foreign direct investment. The specific features of the study include using the most recent comprehensive panel data consisting of 29 provinces during the period 1994–2006 and performing unit root and cointegration tests in the panel data framework. The paper finds that human capital, trade and FDI are the significant determinants of total factor productivity, but their importance varies with technological levels of provinces. These findings have important policy implications.     

The simultaneous evolution of economic growth,financial development,and trade openness

This article empirically investigates the interactions among economic growth, financial development, and trade openness through simultaneous equation systems. The identification and estimation of the systems rely on the methodology of identification through heteroskedasticity. The empirical results show that each of the three variables interacts in important ways. When controlling for the reverse causation, trade promotes economic growth in high-income, low-inflation, and nonagricultural countries but has a negative impact on growth in countries with the opposite attributes. Similarly, when accounting for the feedbacks from growth, banks and stock markets have different impacts on economic growth. While banking development is detrimental to output growth, stock market development is more favorable to growth in high-income, low-inflation, and nonagricultural countries. The data also reveal coexistence of a positive effect of financial development on trade and a negative effect of trade on financial development in poorer countries. In richer countries, financial development stimulates trade openness whereas trade has an ambiguous impact on financial development.