China's Capital and Productivity Measurement Using Financial Resources

22 Pages Posted: 24 Feb 2003

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Kui-Wai Li

City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - Department of Economics & Finance

Date Written: February 2003

Abstract

This paper constructs China's capital stock, which is used in conjunction with a labor variable to estimate a Cobb-Douglas production function for the Chinese economy. Two panels of data are used - one for capital formation and one for sources of investment finance. Both national and provincial data are used for these two panels, thus giving a total of four capital-stock series. The Cobb-Douglas estimates show that China's total factor productivity was about 3.4 percent in the post-reform years. Productivity of coastal provinces is higher than inner provinces. Among the various sources of investment finance, foreign direct investment is more efficient than state-funded capital stock.

Keywords: China Economic Reform, Provincial Growth and Productivity, Financial Resources

JEL Classification: O47

Suggested Citation

Li, Kui-Wai, China's Capital and Productivity Measurement Using Financial Resources (February 2003). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=382400

Kui-Wai Li (Contact Author)

City University of Hong Kong (CityU) - Department of Economics & Finance ( email )

Hong Kong

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