China’s policy of encouraging export processing has been the topic of much discussion in the academic literature and policy debate. We use a recently developed econometric approach that allows for time varying “treatments” and estimate economically...

China's lending to other countries is significantly larger than previously known and reported in official statistics. As of 2017, the world owed more than five trillion USD to the government of China, or around six percent of global economic output....

Kiel Policy Brief No. 146: China assumed an important role during the worldwide outbreak of COVID-19 as the main exporter of critical medical goods such as face masks and disinfectants.

This paper analyses the development of spatial concentration of various innovation activities in China from 2000 to 2015 by using a generalised Theil index based on a balanced provincial dataset. It additionally tracks the concentration development...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 101: Against the background of the continuously weaker economic growth in China in the past few years, the Chinese government is convinced that the Chinese economy needs to adapt itself to getting used to “the New Normal”.

We study the impact of access to finance on exports using Chinese firm level data. We distinguish two modes of external finance, namely bank loans and issuing stocks to shareholders. We not only consider the impact either of these has individually on...

The growth performance of the Chinese economy has been very strong over the last decade, even in the time of the current financial crisis that has hit Western economies. China’s GDP growth has been averaging well over 9 percent since 2008, while the...

KKB 9: The world economy is expanding at a more moderate pace with growth momentum continuing to shift from emerging to advanced economies. World GDP will incr