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Green gains from connectivity: highway expansion and forest quality

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cep:cepdps:dp2162&r=&r=cna

Published: March 17, 2026 00:00

We estimate the causal impact of highway expansion on forest quality in China, where expressway growth coincided with widespread greening. We link maps of highways built in 2000-2010 to China's National Forest Inventory: over 18, 000 geo-located plots in…

Measuring the Power Gap: A Comprehensive National Power Index Assessment of India and China (2024–25)

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:socarx:fhgzj_v1&r=&r=cna

Published: March 12, 2026 00:00

This paper constructs a seven-pillar Comprehensive National Power (CNP) Index to provide a transparent, replicable benchmark of the relative power positions of India and China within a ten-country reference group comprising the United States, China, India,…

Wealth, Medical Spending, and Health: Evidence from a Housing Reform

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cgs:wpaper:124&r=&r=cna

Published: March 9, 2026 00:00

This paper leverages China’s 2006 housing reform and a non-parametric Regression Discontinuity Design (RDD) to identify the causal impact of housing wealth on health and healthcare spending across age groups. A positive housing wealth shock leads to an…

Illicit Parallel Trading, State Permission, and Legality: A Comparative Analysis in the Southern Chinese Seaboard

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:socarx:c3d2b_v1&r=&r=cna

Published: March 3, 2026 00:00

This article applies institutional and media content analysis to investigate the legitimation and criminalisation of cross-border trade within the “Southern Chinese Seaboard, ” specifically between Taiwan and China and between Hong Kong and mainland China,…

The Power of Trading Innovation: Is Market-Oriented Trading of Distributed Power Generation Greening the Energy Industry?

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hhs:cbsnow:2026_006&r=&r=cna

Published: February 25, 2026 00:00

Amid the global green energy transition, China faces bottlenecks in renewable energy integration due to underdeveloped market-based trading systems. To address this gap, this study investigates the effectiveness of distributed power generation trading…

The Geography of Market Power: Evidence from the Chinese Steel Industry

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:tor:tecipa:tecipa-820&r=&r=cna

Published: February 25, 2026 00:00

This paper examines how the geographic distribution of supply and demand shapes market power in the Chinese steel industry. Drawing on novel data, we develop and estimate an equilibrium model that accommodates spatial demand variations and rich firm…

Sowing Seeds of Mobility: The Uneven Impact of Land Reform

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:imf:imfwpa:2026/028&r=&r=cna

Published: February 20, 2026 00:00

We study the uneven impacts of reducing mobility barriers arising from land market frictions by leveraging two major land reforms that strengthened land rental rights in China. We construct a novel county-level reform index by tracing the reforms’ spatial…

Population Aging and Pension Reforms in China

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:imf:imfwpa:2026/027&r=&r=cna

Published: February 20, 2026 00:00

China is experiencing rapid population aging and a declining workforce, posing significant economic and fiscal challenges, especially to the pension system. This paper examines the evolution of China’s pension system, assesses its gaps relative to…

Striving for Economic Security : Emerging Middle Class in the East Asia and Pacific Region

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:11301&r=&r=cna

Published: February 5, 2026 00:00

The East Asia and Pacific region has made remarkable progress on poverty reduction, transforming the economic lives of hundreds of millions of people. With growth prospects dimmer in a world that is increasingly polarized, the question of what it will take…

Understanding China’s 2024–25 Frontloading from the Lens of Product-Level Export Baskets

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:imf:imfwpa:2026/013&r=&r=cna

Published: January 23, 2026 00:00

A striking feature of US-China trade tensions in mid-2025 is China’s acceleration of exports to the US ahead of new tariff increases, a phenomenon we term export frontloading. To understand how this was achieved, we develop a factor model analytical…

American Investment in Chinese Renminbi

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:socarx:anxmr_v1&r=&r=cna

Published: January 23, 2026 00:00

This paper uses microdata on U.S. mutual fund and ETF portfolios from SEC Form N- PORT to study American investment in Chinese Renminbi (RMB)–denominated bonds. We show that, even as total foreign holdings of Chinese bonds rebounded in 2024, U.S. holdings…

Household Financial Decisions, the Role of Child Gender and Background Risk

https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ris:albaec:022119&r=&r=cna

Published: January 20, 2026 00:00

We investigate the role of child gender in financial responses to shocks among households in China, where having a son has deep historical cultural roots, especially in rural areas. Specifically, we compare investment and savings decisions between families…