Pre-1998 Working Papers

This Working Paper series ended in 1998. Subsequent papers on China are published in the CIES Discussion Paper Series

1998

The Dynamics and Impact of the Development of Rural Cooperative Funds (RCFs) in China - Du Zhixiong
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Key issues in Establishing a New Housing System Based on a Market Oriented Economy - Yuan Shiming
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Enterprise Reform and Employment Change in Shanxxi Province - Andrew Watson
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Rural Non-Bank Financial Institutions in Underdeveloped Areas - A Case Study of a County of Henan Province - Chen Jiyuan, Zhu Gang, Liu Yuman
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Household Heads, Non-Economic Factors and Grain Production in china in the 1990's - Enjiang Cheng
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1997

Grain Sector Reform in China - Christopher Findlay
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Internal Reform, Budget Issues and the Internationalisation of the Grain Market in China - Enjiang Cheng, Christopher Findlay and Andrew Watson
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Risks and documentary credits in China's international metals trade - Ian Dickson
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China's Grain Demand and Supply: Trade Implications - Harry X Wu and Christopher Findlay
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The Internationalisation of China and its Implications for Australia - Bijit Bora and Chen Chunlai
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Productivity of China's Rural Industry in the 1980s - Jin Hehui and Du Zhixiong
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The Stock Market in China: Problems and Prospects for Domestic and Foreign Investment - Lan Yisheng
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Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Development in Guangdong: Problems and Prospects - Lan Yisheng
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China's Fishery Industry: Production, Consumption and Trade - Lan Yisheng & Peng Zhaoyang
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Evaluation of China's Urban Housing Reform - Yuan Shiming
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Foreign Direct Investment and Trade: An Empirical Investigation of the Evidence from China - Chen Chunlai
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The Location Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries - Chen Chunlai
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The Composition and Location Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in China's Manufacturing - Chen Chunlai
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Comparison of Investment Behaviour of Source Countries in China - Chen Chunlai
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The Evolution and Main Features of China's Foreign Direct Investment Policies - Chen Chunlai
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Provincial Characteristics and Foreign Direct Investment Location Decision within China - Chen Chunlai
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Testing the hypothesis of irrational exuberance in China's steel imports, 1992-1996 - Ian Dickson
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China's myriad customs regimes and their implications for openness (with reference to steel imports) - Ian Dickson
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1996

Multiple Deprivation in Rural China - Wu Guobao, Sue Richardson, Peter Travers
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Rural Poverty and Its Causes in China - Wu Guobao, Sue Richardson, Peter Travers
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Recent Developments in Foreign Direct Investment in China - Chen Chunlai
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Research on Rural-to-Urban Labour Migration in the Post-Reform China: A Survey - Harry X Wu, Li Zhou
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Economic growth and trade dependency in China - Christopher Findlay, Andrew Watson
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China's Steel Imports: An Outline of Recent Trade Barriers - Ian Dickson
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Changing Patters of Alcohol Consumption in Rural China: Implications for the Grain Section - Yanrui Wu
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Challenges to China's Energy Security - Chao Yang Peng
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Sources of Productivity Disparities in Regional Grain Production in China - Yang Hong
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Trends in China's Regional Grain Product and their Implications - Yang Hong
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China's Maize Production and Supply from a Provincial Perspective - Yang Hong
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China's Rural and Agricultural Reforms: Successes and Failures - D Gale Johnson
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The Sino-Japan Steel Trade Negotiations Framework - Ian Dickson
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1995

Market Reform and Integration in China in the early 1990s - The Case of Maize - Cheng Enjiang, Wu Yanrui

Growth and Productivity in Chinas Agriculture: A Review - Wu Yanrui, Yang Hong

Cointegration Analysis of Chinese Grain Performance 1961-1992 - Steven Lim

Household Income Determination and Regional Income Differential in Rural China - Xin Meng, Harry X Wu

Fiscal Decentralisation, Regionalism and Uneven Development in China - Christopher Findlay, Harry X Wu, Andrew Watson

Relocation of Farm Household Labours and Its Direct and Indirect Impacts on Grain Production in China - Harry X Wu, Xin Meng

Trade Reforms and Integration of China's Domestic and International Grain Markets since the middle 1980s - the Case of Wheat and Maize - Cheng Enjiang, Christopher Findlay

Provision of Institutional Credit and Economic Transition in Rural China - Cheng Enjiang, L R Malcolm

1994

The Role of Prices in China's Grain Production during the Post Reform Period - Hong Yang

Rural Reforms, the Weather, and Productivity Growth in China's Grain Sector - Bin Zhang, Colin Carter

Market Reform and Agricultural Development in China - Andrew Watson

China's Agricultural Reforms: Experiences and Achievements of the Agricultural Sector in the Market Reform Process - Andrew Watson

Productivity Growth, Technological Progress and Technical Efficiency Change in China: A Three Sector Analysis - Yanrui Wu

Productivity and Sources of Growth in the Reforming Chinese Economy - Harry X Wu, Yanrui Wu

A Potential Inconsistency in "Dynamic" Socialism - Steven Lim

Rural Industry - Interactions with Agriculture and State Industry - Steven Lim

Direct Foreign Investment in China - Richard Pomfret

Rice Markets in China in the 1990s - Yanrui Wu

Modelling Inter-Regional Strategic Interactions with a General Equilibrium Framework - Leong H Liew

Comparison of Chinese and International Grain Prices - Cheng Enjiang

Financial Issues and the Forces for Grain Marketing Reforms in China - Cheng Enjiang

Household Grain Consumption in China: Effects of Income, Price and Urbanisation - Yanrui Wu, Harry X Wu

Reforms of China's Foreign Exchange Regime: Behind Unification - Harry X Wu

Macroeconomic Management under Partial Reform: China's Economic Upswing in 1992-94 - Cheng Yuk-shing

1993

The Measurement of Efficiency: A Review of the Theory and Empirical Applications to China - Yanrui Wu

One Industry, Two Regimes: The Chinese Textile Sector Growth, Reforms and Efficiency - Yanrui Wu

Domestic Distortions, Production and International Trade in China: An Analytical Framework - Zhang Xiaohe

The Sequencing of Economic Reform - Richard Pomfret

A Method for Estimating China'sRural GDP - Harry X Wu

Modelling China's Rural Economy - Zhang Xiaohe

China's Experiment with a Quasi-Land Market: The Sale and Transfer of Land Use Rights - Jiang Bing

China's Dual Land Ownership System: Formation and Problems - Jiang Bing

The Impacts of Economic Reforms on Chinese Agricultural Performance - D.T. Nguyen, Harry X Wu

1992

Using a CGE Model to Analyse External Shocks in the Reformed Chinese Economy: A Background Paper - Peng Zhaoyang, Will Martin

Productivity Changes and Regional Disparities in Chinese Agriculture since 1980 - Hong Yang

Growth of Rural Enterprises, Urban-Rural Relations and China's Foreign Trade - Christopher Findlay, Zhang Xiaohe, Andrew Watson

Issues in Fiscal Contracting in China - Christopher Findlay, Andrew Watson

China's Rural Economic Performance during the Reform Decade: Estimates and Assessments - Harry X Wu

The "Industrialisation" of China's Rural Labour Force Since the Economic Reform - Harry X Wu

Productivity Performance of Chinese Rural Enterprises: A Comparative Study - Yanrui Wu

1991

The Classification of China's Industries by Factor Intensity and the Corresponding Trade Pattern of China - Zhang Xiaohe

Enterprise Response to Market Reforms: the Case of the Bicycle Industry (1979-1988) - Zhang Xunhai

China's Tea War - Keith Forster

The Urban Rural Isolation and its impact on China's Production and Trade Pattern - Zhang Xiaohe

Scale, Factor Intensity and Efficiency: Applications to the Chinese Coal Industry - Wu Yanrui

Who Provided Industrialization Funds in China? - Sheng Yuming

The "Real" Chinese Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the Pre-Reform Period 1952-1977 - Harry X Wu

China's Urbanization and Rural-to-Urban Migration: Estimates and Analysis in a Perspective of Economic Development in Pre- and Post-Reform Periods - Harry X Wu

China's Labour Force Sectoral Transformation and Economic Growth in 1953-1989 - Harry X Wu

Government Control of Grain Production in China - Li Qing-zeng

Efficiency Differentials and their Potential Sources in Chinese Iron and Steel Industry - Wu Yanrui

Private Business and the State in China's Reforming Economy - Susan Young

Grain Production and Regional Economic Change in China - Li Qing-zeng, Andrew Watson, Christopher Findlay

The 'Wool War' and the 'Cotton Chaos': Fibre Marketing in China - Zhang Xiaohe, Lu Weiguo, Sun Keliang, Christopher Findlay, Andrew Watson

Oil Price Shocks and Policy Responses in the Post-Reform Chinese Economy - Peng Zhaoyang, Will Martin

One State - Two Economies: Current Issues in China's Rural Industrialisation - Chen Chunlai, Andrew Watson, Christopher Findlay

1990

China's Economic Growth, Changing Comparative Advantages and Agricultural Trade - Kym Anderson

Rural Industrialization in China: A General Equilibrium Analysis - Wu Yanrui

Urban Household Subsidies and Rural Out-Migration: The Case of China - Kym Anderson