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Carsten A. Holz
Social Science Division
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong
carstenholz@gmail.com
http://ihome.ust.hk/~socholz
Tel. +852.5261.6046
Specialization: China’s economy, economic development
Academic employment
2014 - 2015 Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, Harvard University
2012 - 2013 Visiting Professor, Stanford Center for International Development, Stanford
University
2010 - 2012 Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, University of Southern California
2010 - Professor, Social Science Division, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
2007 - 2008 Visiting Research Scholar, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies,
and Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Economics and Woodrow Wilson
School, Princeton University
2003 - 2004 Visiting Scholar, Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University
2002 - 2010 Associate Professor, Social Science Division, HKUST
1999 - 2000 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Cornell University
1995 - 2002 Assistant Professor, Social Science Division, HKUST
1990 – 1991 Lecturer in economics at the (then) University of East Asia, Macau
Education
1991 - 1995 Ph.D., Department of Economics, Cornell University
1984 - 1989 Diplom Volkswirt Regionalstudium China, Tübingen University, Germany
1986 - 1987 Chinese language studies at Northwest University, Xi’an, PRC
Born 5 Sept. 1964
Publications
Monographs
China’s State-owned Enterprises between Profitability and Bankruptcy. Singapore: World Scientific,
August 2003, 351pp.
The Role of Central Banking in China’s Economic Reforms. Cornell East Asia Series, no. 59. Ithaca:
Cornell University East Asia Program, 1992, 220pp.
Journal articles
“Wage and Price Dynamics in China.” With Aaron Mehrotra. The World Economy 39, no. 8 (Aug.
2016): 1109-27. Also “Wage and Price Dynamics in the Largest Emerging Economy — And Are
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There Implications for Inflation Globally?” Stanford University, SCID Working Paper 474, 13
May 2013.
“The Quality of China’s GDP Statistics.” China Economic Review 30 (September 2014): 309-38. Also
Stanford University, SCID Working Paper 487, revised version of 2 December 2013.
“Understanding Money Demand in the Transition from a Centrally Planned to a Market Economy.”
With Anne-Laure Delatte and Julien Fouquau. Post-Communist Economies 26, no. 3 (September
2014): 376-400. Also “Explaining Money Demand in China During the Transition from a
Centrally Planned to a Market-based Monetary System.” Bank of Finland BOFIT Discussion
Paper 27 (October 2011).
“Monthly Industrial Output in China 1980-2012.” China Economic Review 28 (March 2014): 1-16.
Also Stanford University, SCID Working Paper 472, 12 September 2013.
“Chinese Statistics: Classification Systems and Data Sources.” Eurasian Geography and Economics
54, no. 5/6 (2013): 532-71. Also Stanford University, SCID Working Paper 471, 8 January 2013.
“The Unbalanced Growth Hypothesis Revisited: the Role of State Ownership in China’s Economic
Growth.” Journal of Development Economics 96, no. 2 (November 2011): 220-38.
“No Razor’s Edge: Reexamining Alwyn Young’s Evidence for Increasing Inter-Provincial Trade
Barriers in China.” The Review of Economics and Statistics 91, no. 3 (August 2009): 599-616.
“China’s Economic Growth 1978-2025: What We Know Today about China’s Economic Growth
Tomorrow.” World Development 36, no. 10 (October 2008): 1665-91.
“Revisions to China’s GDP Data Following the 2004 Economic Census: More Questions Than
Answers?” The China Quarterly, no. 193 (March 2008): 150-63.
“Spatial Price Differences in China: Estimates and Implications.” With Loren Brandt. Economic
Development and Cultural Change 55, no. 1 (October 2006): 43-86.
“New Capital Estimates for China.” China Economic Review 17, no. 2 (2006): 142-85.
Also in the same issue: “Response to Gregory C. Chow’s ‘New Capital Estimates for China:
Comments’,” pp. 193-97.
“China’s Reform Period Economic Growth: How Reliable Are Angus Maddison’s Estimates?”
Review of Income and Wealth 52, no. 1 (March 2006): 85-119.
With “China’s Reform Period Economic Growth: How Reliable Are Angus Maddison’s
Estimates? Response to Angus Maddison’s Reply.” Review of Income and Wealth 52, no. 3
(September 2006): 471-5.
“China’s Statistical System in Transition: Challenges, Data Problems, and Institutional Innovations.”
Review of Income and Wealth 50, no. 3 (September 2004): 381-409.
“Deconstructing China’s GDP Statistics.” China Economic Review 15, no. 2 (2004): 164-202.
“‘Fast, Clear and Accurate:’ How Reliable Are Chinese Output and Economic Growth Statistics?”
The China Quarterly, no. 173 (March 2003): 122-63.
“Long Live China’s State-owned Enterprises: Deflating the Myth of Poor Financial Performance.”
Journal of Asian Economics 13, no. 4 (July/August 2002): 493-529.
“Institutional Constraints on the Quality of Statistics in a Developing and Transitional Economy: the
Case of China.” China Information 16, no. 1 (2002): 25-67.
“The Impact of Competition and Labor Remuneration on Profitability in China’s Industrial Stateowned
Enterprises.” Journal of Contemporary China 11, no. 32 (August 2002): 515-38.
“The Impact of the Liability-Asset Ratio on Profitability in China’s Industrial State-owned
Enterprises.” China Economic Review 13, no. 1 (2002): 1-26.
“The 1997-1998 Break in Industrial Statistics: Facts and Appraisal.” With Yi-min Lin. China
Economic Review 12, no. 4 (2001): 303-16.
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“Pitfalls of China’s Industrial Statistics: Inconsistencies and Specification Problems.” With Yi-min
Lin. The China Review 1, no. 1 (Fall 2001): 29-71.
“Economic Reforms and State Sector Bankruptcy in China.” The China Quarterly, no. 166 (June
2001): 342-67.
“Why Do Aggregate Production Functions Work? Fisher’s Simulations, Shaik’s Identity and Some New
Results.” With Jesus Felipe. International Review of Applied Economics 15, no. 3 (July 2001):
261-85.
“Identifying the Patterns of Profitability Across Chinese State-owned Enterprises: Which Industrial
State-owned Enterprises in China Are Profitable?” Journal of Asian Business 17, no. 2 (2001):
33-62.
“Banking and Enterprise Reform in the People’s Republic of China after the Asian Financial Crisis:
An Appraisal.” With Tian Zhu. Asian Development Review 18, no. 1 (2000/2001): 73-93.
“China’s Monetary Reform: The Counterrevolution from the Countryside.” Journal of Contemporary
China 10, no. 27 (May 2001): 189-217.
“The Changing Role of Money in China and Its Implications.” Comparative Economic Studies 42, no.
3 (Fall 2000): 77-100. Also in Brada, Josef C., Paul Wachtel, and Dennis Tao Yang, China’s
Economic Development, New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
“Contractionary Investment Policies in China 1988/89: Accounting for the Implementation
Difficulties and Successes.” The China Quarterly, no. 160 (December 1999): 881-918.
Short articles
“Ist das Chinesische Wachstumsmodell am Ende” (Has China’s Economic Growth Model Run Its
Course?” ifo Schnelldienst 7/2016, Vol. 69, 13 April 2016, pp. 9-11, Munich, Germany.
“Is Excessive Domestic Investment Hurting China?” MERICS China Monitor No. 29, 18 November
2015. At http://www.merics.org/en/merics-analysis/analyseschina-monitor/merics-china-monitorno-
29.html.
“China’s GDP Data Are Better Than You Think.” Bloomberg Brief: Building China’s Data System,
September 2014, p. 4. At: http://www.bloombergbriefs.com/content/uploads/sites/2/2014/09/ENChina_
Data_System-WEB.pdf
“Can We Trust the Numbers?” China Economic Quarterly 18, no. 1 (March 2014): 43-50.
“Here Be Dragons? China’s Economic Data May Not Be All Bad.” The Conversation, 3 March 2014.
At https://theconversation.com/here-be-dragons-chinas-economic-data-may-not-be-all-bad-23047.
“Statistics,” in David Pong (editor-in-chief), Encyclopedia of Modern China, Detroit, MI: Charles
Scribner’s Sons, 2009, Vol. 3, pp. 497-9.
“Have China Scholars All Been Bought?” Far Eastern Economic Review 170, no. 3 (April 2007): 36-
40.
“More Number Games.” China Economic Quarterly 10, no. 3 (third quarter, 2006): 40-44.
“Why China’s Growth [Rise] Is Sustainable.” Far Eastern Economic Review 169, no. 3 (April 2006):
41-6.
“Why China’s New GDP Data Matters.” Far Eastern Economic Review 169, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 2006):
54-7.
“China’s Economic Growth Statistics: Trustworthy in the Long Run, Less So in the Short Run.” Asia-
Pacific Research Center, Stanford University, APARC Dispatch October 2004.
“China’s GDP Growth Numbers: Can We Believe Them?” China Economic Quarterly 7, no. 1 (first
quarter, 2003): 33-7.
“The People’s Bank of China in the mid-1990s.” China Finance 2, no. 3 (May 1996), 5pp.
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Book chapters
“Zhongguo tongji xitong de bianqian: tiaozhan, ziliao wenti he zhidu chuangxin” (China’s Statistical
System in Transition: Challenges, Data Problems, and Institutional Innovations), Chapter 10 in
Guan Xinji and Xiong Jingming (eds.), Zhongwai ming xuezhe lun 21 shiji chu de zhongguo
(Famous Chinese and Overseas Scholars Discuss China at the Beginning of the 21st Century).
Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2009, pp. 177-204. Previously published as English
language journal article.
“Institutional Arrangements for the Production of Statistics,” Chapter 5 in OECD, China in the Global
Economy: Governance in China, Paris, 2005, pp. 169-96.
“Assessment of the Current State of China’s Economic Reforms.” With Tian Zhu. In Alvin So (ed.),
China’s Developmental Miracle: Origins, Transformations, and Challenges. Armonk, NY: M.E.
Sharpe, 2003, pp. 183-223.
Also as journal article in The Chinese Economy 35, no. 3 (May-June 2002): 26-51.
“The Functional, Institutional, and Personnel Changes in China’s Financial System: Reasons and
Implications.” In Johann Heinrich von Stein (ed.), China’s Changing Financial System. Frankfurt
am Main: Fritz Knapp Verlag, 1997, pp. 107-38. [chapter and book in German]
Book reviews
Yueh, Linda. China’s Growth: The Making of an Economic Superpower. (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2013.) The China Journal 74 (July 2015): 169-171.
Xu, Yi-chong (ed.). The Political Economy of State-owned Enterprises in China and India. (New
York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.) The Journal of Asian Studies 74, no. 2 (May 2015): 486-8.
SHENG Hong, and ZHAO Nong. China’s State-owned Enterprises: Nature, Performance, and
Reform. (Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Company, 2013.) The Journal of Asian Studies
74, no. 2 (May 2015): 482-3.
Knight, John, and Sai Ding. China’s Remarkable Economic Growth. (Oxford and New York: Oxford
University Press, 2012.) Journal of Economic Literature LI (March 2013): 15-7.
Lin, Justin Yifu. Demystifying the Chinese Economy. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012.)
The Developing Economies 50, no. 3 (September 2012): 299-302.
Chen, Chien-Hsun and Hui-Tzu Sh Yuann, James K., and Jason Inch. Supertrends of Future China:
Billion Dollar Business Opportunities for China’s Olympic Decade. (Singapore: World Scientific,
2008.) Journal of Asian Business, forthcoming.
Chen, Chien-Hsun and Hui-Tzu Shih. Mergers and Acquisitions in China: Impacts of WTO
Accession. Advances in Chinese Economic Studies. (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2008). Journal
of Asian Business, forthcoming.
Shue, Vivienne, and Christine Wong (eds.). Paying for Progress in China: Public Finance, Human
Welfare and Changing Patterns of Inequality. (Milton Park and New York: Routledge, 2007). The
China Review 7, no. 2 (Fall 2007): 225-8.
Cousin, Violaine. Banking in China. (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, and New York: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2007). The China Quarterly, no. 191 (September 2007): 763f.
Yusuf, Shahid, Kaoru Nabeshima, and Dwight H. Perkins. Under New Ownership: Privatizing
China’s State-Owned Enterprises. (World Bank, Washington DC, and Stanford University Press,
Palo Alto, 2006). Asian-Pacific Economic Literature 20, no. 2 (November 2006): 75f.
Garnaut, Ross, and Song Ligang (eds.). China: Is Rapid Growth Sustainable? (Canberra: Asia Pacific
Press at The Australian National University, 2004). The China Journal, no. 54 (July 2005): 155-7.
Lin, Justin Yifu, Fang Cai, and Zhou Li. The China Miracle: Development Strategy and Economic
Reform, revised edition. (Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2003). The China Review 3,
no. 2 (Fall 2003): 173-6.
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Song, Ligang (ed.). Dilemmas of China’s Growth in the Twenty-First Century. (Canberra: Asia
Pacific Press at The Australian National University, 2002). Journal of Asian Business 19, no. 2
(2003): 103-5.
Jae Ho Chung (ed.). Cities in China: Recipes for Economic Development in the Reform Era. (London
and New York: Routledge, 1999). The China Journal, no. 46 (July 2001): 162-5.
Jean C. Oi. Rural China Takes Off: Institutional Foundations of Economic Reform. (Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1999). The Journal of Asian Studies 59, no. 2 (May 2000): 416-8.
Gang Yi. Money, Banking, and Financial Markets in China. (Boulder: Westview Press, 1994). China
Review International 3, no. 2 (Fall 1996): 582-7.
Work in progress
“China’s Investment Rate: Implications and Data Reliability.” 26 November 2015. At
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2696760. Revised version under submission
at Emerging Markets Finance and Trade.
Published working papers
“Wage Determination in China during the Reform Period.” The Bank of Finland Institute for
Economies in Transition, BOFIT Discussion Paper 13/2014. 6 May 2014.
“The Institutional Arrangements for the Production of Statistics.” OECD Statistics working paper,
STD/DOC (2005) 1, 19 January 2005. (In slightly abridged/revised version as book chapter, see
above.) At: http://www.olis.oecd.org/olis/2005doc.nsf/43bb6130e5e
86e5fc12569fa005d004c/79bd1182713f436ec1256f8e0033ebb2/$FILE/JT00177141.PDF
Other working papers
“Chinese Statistics: Output Data.” Stanford University, SCID Working Paper 473, 1 March 2013.
“The Quantity and Quality of Labor in China 1978-2000-2025.” May 2005, 81pp.
“Financing Constraints and Investment in China’s Township and Village Enterprises.” December
1999, Social Science Division working paper, HKUST.
“China’s Bad Loan Problem.” April 1999, Social Science Division working paper, HKUST.
Dissertation
“Economic Policy Transmission During China’s Transition: A Theoretical Framework and a Case
Study of Central Control Over Investment.” Ph.D. dissertation, Cornell University, Department of
Economics, August 1995.
Research grants
4/2016-3/2019 School-Based Initiative, HKUST: ‘Chinese Statistics’ (HKD 12,000, Principal
Investigator)
1/2014-6/2017 Research Grants Council (Hong Kong), General Research Fund 2013/2014: ‘The
Process of Economic Development in West Sichuan, China’ (HKD 780,000, PI)
7/2010-06/2013 Direct Allocation Grant (HKUST): ‘Chinese Statistics’ (HKD 25,000, PI)
1/2008-12/2010 Research Grants Council (Hong Kong), Competitive Earmarked Research Grant
2007-2008: ‘Economic Fragmentation and Domestic Trade Patterns in China’
(HKD 376,508, PI)
8/2005-1/2008 Research Grants Council (Hong Kong), Competitive Earmarked Research Grant
2005-2006: ‘China’s Economic Growth Prospects’ (HKD 117,600, PI)
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2/2005-12/2007 Direct Allocation Grant (HKUST): ‘The Contribution of Sample Surveys to GDP
Statistics in China’ (HKD 50,000, PI)
7/2003-6/2005 Research Grants Council (Hong Kong), Competitive Earmarked Research Grant
2003-2004: ‘The Role of State Ownership in China’s Economic Growth’ (HKD
135,000, PI)
11/2002-10/2004 Direct Allocation Grant (HKUST): ‘Price Indices in China’ (HKD 65,000, PI)
12/2001-9/2002 Direct Allocation Grant (HKUST): ‘State-owned Enterprise Profitability in
China’ (HKD 37,000, PI)
4/1999-6/2002 Direct Allocation Grant (HKUST): ‘Explaining Informal Finance in China’
(HKD 63,800, PI)
4/1996-9/1998 Direct Allocation Grant (HKUST): ‘Financing and the Growth of Small- and
Medium-Sized Enterprises in China’ (HKD 82,000, PI)
Various other grants (travel, conference attendance, software purchase, ‘Salzburg Seminar’
fellowship)
3-month fellowship, Stanford Center for International Development, Stanford University, 2012/13
Consulting
Asian Development Bank, Resident Mission Beijing. “The Role of Investment in Structural Change in
the PRC.” (Sept. - Dec. 2016)
Short-term visits
December 2015 ifo Institute, Munich
June/July 2015 MERICS (Mercator Institute for China Studies, Berlin)
February 2015 Yale University, Department of Economics / Cowles Foundation
September 2014 Yale University, Department of Economics / Cowles Foundation
June 2013 Bank of Finland Institute for Transition Economies
May/June 2011 Bank of Finland Institute for Transition Economies
Oct./Nov. 2008 Bank of Finland Institute for Transition Economies
Awards
2002 Gordon White Prize 2001 for “Economic Reforms and State Sector Bankruptcy in China”
as the most original article or research report published in The China Quarterly in 2001
Service
Visiting Professor and Fellow, China Center for Human Capital and Labor Market Research
(February 2014-)
Member of the Editorial Board of The China Quarterly (July 2012-)
Member of the Editorial Board of the Review of Income and Wealth (Sept. 2006-2014)
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the China Economic Review (1 Jan. 2005-)
2013-2015: guest editor of two special issues on Chinese statistics
Member of the Advisory Board of the China Economic Quarterly (2003-)
Reviewer for: Asia Pacific Education Review, Asian Development Review, Canadian Journal of
Economics, China Economic Review, China Information, The China Quarterly, China Review,
Comparative Economic Studies, Development and Change, Eastern Economic Journal, Economic
Development and Cultural Change, Economic Inquiry, Economic Systems, Emerging Markets
Finance and Trade, Governance, Japan and the World Economy, Journal of Asian Economics,
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Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, Journal of Chinese Economic and Foreign
Trade Studies, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Development Studies, Modern
China, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of
Income and Wealth, World Development, World Politics
Grant reviews: Hong Kong Research Grants Council, Canadian Research Council for the Humanities
and Social Sciences, University of Macau Multi-Year Research Grants; and professorial
promotion reviews.
Professional membership: American Economic Association, Chinese Economists Society, Chinese
Economists Association of North America, Hong Kong Economic Association
Courses
Undergraduate
Introduction to China’s Economy, China’s Economy, The Chinese Economy (also at USC, 2010)
Introduction to Economics (with a focus on macroeconomics)
Money and Banking in China
Money and Banking (at the University of East Asia, 1990)
International Monetary and Financial Economics
Intermediate Microeconomics (at Cornell University, 1999/2000)
Principles of Macroeconomics (at USC, 2011)
Intermediate Macroeconomics (at Cornell University, 2000, and at USC, 2011)
Statistics
Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences
East Asian Economic Development (also at Princeton University, 2008, and at USC, 2010)
Utopian Economies (at the University of East Asia, 1991)
(Post-)graduate
Social Science Research Methods
Quantitative Analysis in the Social Sciences
China’s Economic Growth
The Chinese Economy (also in the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, 2008)
Economics of Development
Presentations
Does China Invest too Much?
2nd CAG Conference on Evolving Finance, Trade and Investment in Asia, National University of
Singapore, 21 October 2016
MERICS (Mercator Institute for China Studies), Berlin, 27 July 2015
Capital Stock Measures for China, 1952-2013
ASSA meetings, American Economic Association session “Chinese Economic Data: User’s
Guide,” San Francisco, 5 January 2016
World Congress of Comparative Economics, Rome, 26 June 2015
China Human Capital Report (Section on physical capital).
China Center for Human Capital and Labor Market Research, The 6th International Symposium on
Human Capital and the Labor Market, CUFE, Beijing, 31 October 2014. And the 7th
International Symposium on Human Capital and the Labor Market, CUFE, Beijing, 12
December 2015.
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User’s Guide to Chinese Statistics / Chinese Statistics: Classification Systems and Data Sources.
Yale University, Department of Economics, 2 October 2014
Wage Determination in China
Stockholm China Economic Research Institute at Stockholm School of Economics and the
National School of Development at Peking University, Conference on “Industrial Upgrading
and Urbanization,” Stockholm, 28 August 2014
The 5th International Symposium on Human Capital and the Labor Market, China Center for
Human Capital and Labor Market Research, Beijing, 15 December 2013
The Bank of Finland Institute for Economies in Transition, 11 June 2013.
The Quality of China’s GDP Statistics
Asian Development Bank Resident Mission, Beijing, 22 June 2016
Faculty of Social Sciences, Macau University, 17 February 2016
China Center for Human Capital and Labor Market Research, CUFE, Beijing, 5 May 2015
Communist and Post-Communist Seminar, Harvard University, 2 April 2015
China Initiative Distinguished Speaker Series, Watson Institute, Brown University, 17 March
2015
MERICS (Mercator Institute for China Studies), Berlin, 14 January 2015
CFA Institute, Global Policy Summit 2014, Charlottesville, 13 November 2014
Fairbank Center, Harvard University, 7 November 2014
China Center for Economic Research, Peking University, 31 October 2014
Yale University Macroeconomics Seminar, 30 September 2014
INFER (International Network for Economic Research) 2014 Annual Conference, Pescara, Italy,
30 May 2014
CFA 2014 Regional Advocacy & Policy Summit, Hong Kong, 17 May 2014
Social Science Division, HKUST, 11 April 2014
School of Economics and Finance, The University of Hong Kong, 26 March 2014
Association for Comparative Economic Studies, Allied Social Science Association Meetings,
Philadelphia, 3 January 2014
University of Nottingham Ningbo China, GEP China/ifo/CEPII Conference, 7 November 2013
National University of Singapore, East Asian Institute Distinguished Lecture, 10 October 2013
Stanford University, China Social Science Seminar, 13 May 2013
Stanford University, Stanford Center for International Development, 23 April 2013
The Role of State Ownership in China’s Economic Growth (or The Unbalanced Growth Hypothesis
and the Role of the State: the Case of China’s State-owned Enterprises)
2011 China Public Economic Development Forum, Beijing, 22 October 2011
Tsinghua University, School of Public Administration, Beijing, 22 October 2011
Bank of Finland Transition Institute, 1 June 2011
Stanford University, Stanford Center for International Development, 26 April 2011
University of Southern California, Department of Economics, 23 March 2011
Allied Social Science Association Meetings, Denver, 9 January 2011
International Symposium on Chinese Economic Growth: Causes, Prospects and Its Implications
for Macao, Macao, 3 March 2007
Western Economic Association International Pacific Rim Conference, Beijing, 12 January 2007.
Labour Market Statistics in China
Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research, Hong Kong Monetary Authority, The Seventh
HKIMR Conference on the Mainland Economy “Macroeconomic Statistics and Surveillance
in Mainland China,” 16-17 November 2009
Measuring Economic Growth and Productivity Change in China
Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research, Hong Kong Monetary Authority, 27 May 2009
Department of Economics, Lingnan University, 28 April 2009
Institut fuer Sinologie, Universitaet Heidelberg, 24 April 2009 (“Economic Growth and Structural
Change in China”)
Chinese Economic Association in North America, Allied Social Science Association Meetings,
San Francisco, 4 January 2009 (“Measuring Productivity Change in China”)
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UCSD School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, 17 November 2008
Bank of Finland Institute for Economies in Transition, 29 October 2008
Conference on Thirty Years of Economic Reform and Opening in China, Chinese University of
Hong Kong, 23 October 2008
No Razor’s Edge: Reexamining Alwyn Young’s Evidence for Increasing Inter-Provincial Trade
Barriers in China
American Economic Association Meetings, Boston, 7 January 2006
China’s Economic Growth 1978-2025: What We Know Today about China’s Economic Growth
Tomorrow
Bank of Finland, 30 October 2008
Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, 24 October 2007
Salzburg Seminar Session 438, 6 December 2006
Stanford Center for International Development, 21 November 2006
Chinese Economists Society Meetings, Shanghai, 2 July 2006
Macao University, 12 May 2006
OECD Statistics Directorate, Paris, 14 November 2005
China Economic Quarterly / Gavekal Seminar, Hong Kong, 8 November 2005
Center on China’s Transnational Relations, HKUST, 30 September 2005
Western Economic Association Meetings 2005, San Francisco, 7 July 2005
Universities Service Center of China Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 30 June 2005
Association for Asian Studies Meetings, San Diego, 5 March 2004 (“Economic Growth in China:
Past and Future”)
Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford University, 23 Feb. 2004 (“Economic Growth in China:
Past and Future”)
China’s Statistical System in Transition: Challenges, Data Problems, and Institutional Innovations
40th Anniversary Conference, The State of Contemporary China, Universities Service Center for
China Studies, Hong Kong, 7 January 2004
Chinese Data
School of Economics and Finance, University of Hong Kong, 12 March 2003
‘Fast, Clear and Accurate:’ How Reliable Are Chinese Output and Economic Growth Statistics?
International Conference in Honor of Gregory Chow (“China and the World Economy”), City
University of Hong Kong, 15 June 2002
Long Live China’s State-owned Enterprises: Deflating the Myth of Poor Financial Performance
Social Science Seminar, HKUST, 19 April 2001
Chinese Economic Association in North America, Allied Social Science Association Meetings, 9
January 2000
Some Common Misperceptions on the Development of the Liability-Asset Ratio and Its Impact on
Profitability in China’s Industrial State-owned Enterprises
Chinese Economic Association in North America, Allied Social Science Association Meetings, 5
January 2001
Economic Reforms and State Sector Bankruptcy in China
First Biennial Conference, Hong Kong Economic Association, 16 December 2000
Cong zhongguo guoyou shangye yinhang daikuan zhiliang yu daikuan qishi kan difang jinrong (The
loan quality and lending bias of China’s state commercial banks and the development of local
financial intermediation)
Conference on local finance organized by Jinrong shibao (Financial Times newspaper) and
Difang jinrong zazhishe (Local Finance journal), Beijing, 1 May 1999
Financing Constraints and Investment in China’s Township and Village Enterprises
Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, 12 March 1999
China’s Monetary Reform: The Counterrevolution from the Countryside
Chinese Economic Association in North America, Allied Social Science Association Meetings, 5
January 1999
China’s Bad Loan Problem
Chinese Economists Society, Allied Social Science Association Meetings, 3 January 1999
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Zhongguo qianzai jinrong weiji: buliang daikuan wenti (China’s latent financial crisis: the bad loan
problem)
Huanan Ligong Daxue (South China University of Technology), Guangzhou, PRC, 28 November
1998
China’s Financial Crisis
Department of Economics, HKUST, 9 November 1998
Financing and the Growth of Rural Enterprises in China
Western Economic Association International, 73rd Annual Conference, 30 June 1998
The Changing Role of Money in China and Its Implications
Universities Service Center, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 19 Feb. 1998
Chinese Economic Association in North America, Allied Social Science Association Meetings, 4
January 1998
Social Science Seminar, HKUST, 19 November 1997
Economic Policy Implementation During the PRC’s Transition: A Case Study of Central Control
Over Investment
Chinese Economic Association in North America, Allied Social Science Association Meetings, 4
January 1997
Social Science Seminar, HKUST, 5 December 1996
On Production Functions, Technical Progress, and Time Trends (With Jesus Felipe)
Dept. of Economics Seminar, Hong Kong University, 4 November 1996
Dept. of Economics Seminar, HKUST, 11 October 1996
China’s Monetary System: Advances and Limitations
Social Science Seminar, HKUST, 27 March 1996