Is the People’s Republic of China’s Current Slowdown a Cyclical Downturn or a Long-term Trend? A Productivity-Based Analysis
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- Chong-En Bai & Qiong Zhang, 2017. "Is the People's Republic of China's current slowdown a cyclical downturn or a long-term trend? A productivity-based analysis," Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 22(1), pages 29-46, January.
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Keywords
productivity; technical efficiency; utilization efficiency; allocative efficiency; counter-factual analysis;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- E20 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - General (includes Measurement and Data)
- O47 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CNA-2017-01-29 (China)
- NEP-EFF-2017-01-29 (Efficiency and Productivity)
- NEP-MAC-2017-01-29 (Macroeconomics)
- NEP-TRA-2017-01-29 (Transition Economics)
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