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Institutional Reform and Economic Growth of China: 40-year Progress Toward Marketization

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  • Fan, Gang

    (Peking University HSBC Business School
    National Economic Research Institute)

  • Ma, Guangrong

    (School of Finance and China Financial Policy Research Center, Renmin University of China)

  • Wang, Xiaolu

    (National Economic Research Institute)

Abstract

China has persevered its market-oriented economic transition since 1978. In this paper, we use the provincial-level NERI Index of Marketization from 1997 to 2014 and a panel data model to investigate the quantitative contribution of market-oriented reforms to China’s total factor productivity (TFP) and economic growth. Our results indicate that marketization reforms contributed 1.3 percentage points to China’s annual economic growth rate and accounted for 35 percent of the increase in TFP. This means that the institutional reforms significantly improved resource allocation. However, economic transition in China has not yet been completed and sustainability of future growth will depend on further market-oriented reforms.

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  • Fan, Gang & Ma, Guangrong & Wang, Xiaolu, 2019. "Institutional Reform and Economic Growth of China: 40-year Progress Toward Marketization," Acta Oeconomica, Akadémiai Kiadó, Hungary, vol. 69(supplemen), pages 7-20, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:aka:aoecon:v:69:y:2019:i:supplement1:p:7-20
    Note: This research was supported by the Fundamental Research Founds for the Central Universities and the Research Funds of Renmin University of China (No. 18 XNQ004).
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    Keywords

    marketization; institutional reforms; economic transition; growth; total factor productivity;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • O57 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Comparative Studies of Countries
    • P24 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist and Transition Economies - - - National Income, Product, and Expenditure; Money; Inflation

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