In a country such as China, which maintains strict controls on foreign exchange and frequently intervenes in the currency market, it is not surprising that the local currency is persistently undervalued in nominal terms. Normally, one would expect such a policy of deliberate currency...

Constructing an open economy Lewisian growthmodel withth ree sectors, we analyze the relationship between economic growth and the level of absolute prices. We show that the absolute price level will not increase until the economy reaches the Lewisian turning point. In addition, we show that in...

In a country such as China, which maintains strict controls on foreign exchange and frequently intervenes in the currency market, it is not surprising that the local currency is persistently undervalued in nominal terms. Normally, one would expect such a policy of deliberate currency...

Purpose Economic theories on structural change focus on factors such as fluctuations in relative prices and income growth. In addition, China's reform and opening up has also been accompanied by increasing openness, significant fluctuations in investment rates, and frictions in the labor market....

Chaos theory reveals structure in aperiodic, dynamic systems. The number of nonlinear business cycle models use chaos theory to explain complex motion of the economy. The basic aim of this paper is to provide a relatively simple chaotic economic growth model that is capable of generating stable...

The purpose of this paper is to highlight a version of the Balassa-Samuelson effect for emerging countries with a new dataset. More than the catching-up effect, we will measure the convergence for three emerging countries: Brazil/China/India. We will compare the convergence between these...

China's accelerated growth rate during the reform period 1978-97 has reinforced concerns about how to cope with continued expansion while also maintaining balanced regional growth. We examine the tendency to, and the speed of, provincial income convergence during the two periods: pre-reform...

This paper develops a stylized multi-sector growth model of China's economy. We choose a neoclassical modeling approach and focus on the reform process under Deng Xiaoping as China's main growth driver since 1978. Following the literature, we distinguish between three major reform periods,...

This paper develops a stylized multi-sector growth model of China's economy. We choose a neoclassical modeling approach and focus on the reform process under Deng Xiaoping as China's main growth driver since 1978. Following the literature, we distinguish between three major reform periods,...

This paper identifies a new mechanism leading to inefficiency in capital reallocation at theextensive margin when an economy experiences a sectoral boom. I argue that imperfectionsin the financial market and capital barriers to entry in the booming sector create amisallocation of managerial...