Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/163134 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
ADBI Working Paper No. 635
Publisher: 
Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), Tokyo
Abstract: 
Whether the People's Republic of China's (PRC) economic slowdown since the 2008 financial crisis is a cyclical downturn or a long-run trend has important policy implications. Based on provincial panel data, this article identifies the determinants of productivity and uses counter-factual analysis to decompose the causes of the PRC's post-crisis slowdown. It finds that economic openness has a significantly positive impact on the technical efficiency of production, whereas the income level has a significantly negative effect. Second, a significantly negative correlation is observed between the stock of inventory and productivity, while the opposite is observed between employment involvement rate and productivity. Third, government size and investment rates both have significantly negative effects on productivity. Lastly, the diminishing late-mover advantage and the growth in investment rate are both major contributors to the current decline in the PRC's productivity. Although the stimulus-induced investment surge has effectively offset the negative effects of the crisis on the PRC's growth, it is not conducive to the growth of productivity and consumption. The current economic slowdown does not seem to be a cyclical downturn. Indeed, further reforms are needed to stabilize the PRC's growth.
Subjects: 
productivity
technical efficiency
utilization efficiency
allocative efficiency
counter-factual analysis
JEL: 
O47
E20
Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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