{"title":"A survey of AI in finance","authors":"Yi Cao, Jianwu Zhai","doi":"10.1080/14765284.2022.2077632","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14765284.2022.2077632","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In recent years, the dramatically fast development of financial technology (fintech) has played an important role in the production, delivery and consumption of financial products and services. In this survey, we sum up the primary research discoveries in fintech area, which include the possible evolution of fintech’s effect on customer protection, prosperity and the discovery of the asset prices and returns, and the design of digital frameworks in the era of the fintech.","PeriodicalId":45444,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45407537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Development paradigm of artificial intelligence in China from the perspective of digital economics","authors":"Zhiyi Liu, Yejie Zheng","doi":"10.1080/14765284.2022.2081485","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14765284.2022.2081485","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper mainly discusses three issues: How Artificial Intelligence (AI) influences China’s economy and shape the production factors. How to realize the network economy effect in China. What is the difference between the value of digital economy and that of traditional economy. On the basis of fully discussing the above problems, the author constructs a new AI economic growth model, and summarizes the research paradigm of digital economy based on value, network, and consensus.","PeriodicalId":45444,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43897699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A new type of engagement between China and Europe amidst the COVID pandemic","authors":"Zhigao He, Yuan Li","doi":"10.1080/14765284.2022.2056387","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14765284.2022.2056387","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The impact of the pandemic on the international economic and normative order has accelerated power struggles between the East and the West. Especially, the intensification of conflicts between China and Europe in terms of values may even affect the existing cooperation in the fields of economics, trade, and multilateralism. Despite divergences between China and Europe, including queries over the so-called mask diplomacy and cultural discrimination, as well as pressures from the US, some in Europe hope to strengthen engagement with China and keep the door open for cooperation and dialogue, thereby committing to the fundamentals of win-win cooperation. Cooperation is the backbone of a new type of engagement between China and Europe, which should not be affected by some occasional discord. Based on this new type of engagement, China and Europe build mutual trust, strengthen communication and coordination on global issues in a positive and pragmatic manner.","PeriodicalId":45444,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43934514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is China’s infrastructure development experience unique?","authors":"Zhi Liu, Xiu-qin Liu","doi":"10.1080/14765284.2022.2040074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14765284.2022.2040074","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The rapid development of infrastructure in China over the last four decades has drawn not only considerable international media coverage, but also research interest from the academic world. Few studies, however, ask the question if China’s infrastructure development experience is extraordinary. By comparing the level and pace of infrastructure development between China and other countries, we find that the case of China is not unique at the country level. What is unique is the heavy use of infrastructure investment as a policy instrument to stimulate the economy, both at the upturns and downturns. The paper further identifies the key weaknesses of China’s infrastructure sector, and highlights the effects of economic, technological, demographic, and climate trends on the future of infrastructure, and discusses the directions of infrastructure development in the next 20–30 years.","PeriodicalId":45444,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42205481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Can ‘new’ infrastructure become an engine of growth for the Chinese economy?","authors":"Jiayin Meng, Yite Zhu, Yang Han","doi":"10.1080/14765284.2022.2036571","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14765284.2022.2036571","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper explores the effect of new infrastructure on economic growth from the aspects of tangible and intangible assets. According to empirical analysis, we conclude that traditional infrastructure directly contributes to the Chinese economic growth via fixed asset formation, while new infrastructure has overall insignificant direct effect on growth, i.e. it is unrealistic for new infrastructure to become an engine of growth for the Chinese economy in the short run. But it is also worth noting that new infrastructure does have the potential to promote the upgrade of industry structure and therefore boost economy in the long run. Based on the modelling results as well as the nature of new infrastructure, it is suggested that new infrastructure investment is not suitable to act as a short-term stimulation especially under Covid-19 pandemic despite its great potential in the long term.","PeriodicalId":45444,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46147183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How do firms specialize? The technological positions of Chinese robotics firms","authors":"K. Kimura","doi":"10.1080/14765284.2022.2036577","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14765284.2022.2036577","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study analyses how firms sharpen technological specialization as they develop technologies. We investigate the technological positions of firms in the Chinese robotics industry, which has been rapidly growing in recent years. Using patent information for technological fields that firms focus on, firstly, we show that the technological positions of Chinese firms have been getting close to that of a Japanese first-mover firm in the same industry. Secondly, we examine the characteristics of the technological positions of Chinese firms and show that specialization consists of technologies which realize the basic functions of robots and those which improve the sophistication of products. Specialization generally means a strength rooting in narrower technological fields, but it is established as an expansive structure that straddles various technological fields. Therefore, to evaluate the strength of each firm, it is necessary to compare the commonalities and differences of technological positions.","PeriodicalId":45444,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46903744","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Challenges for sustainable productivity in developing economies: shortage of energy and corruption","authors":"N. Apergis, M. Lau, Zezeng Li","doi":"10.1080/14765284.2021.1977082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14765284.2021.1977082","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Developing countries suffer from shortages of electricity, posing a severe problem for industrial firms and giving them considerable incentives to access electricity resources through bribery. We investigate how firms’ revenues, sales and productivity are affected by payments of bribes to obtain electricity connections. We use ordinary least squares (OLS), quantile and instrumental variable (IV) quantile regression analysis. OLS estimates reveal a negative effect on sales and productivity and a positive impact on profitability, while quantile regression suggests a negative effect on sales across all quantiles and a positive effect on productivity at the lower quantile. Since this research shows that bribery may negatively influence productivity, it informs shareholders that bribery may be detrimental to their long-term benefits.","PeriodicalId":45444,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45049243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From pandemic to endemic? Learning lessons from a global contagion","authors":"A. Hadfield","doi":"10.1080/14765284.2021.2024486","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14765284.2021.2024486","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Covid-19 has had the most profound impact at all levels: globally, nationally, and individually, across every sector imaginable. The ‘spectrum of responses’ represents an emerging structure that decision-makers have created and implanted, to help control the unpredictable nature of the pandemic. From shut down to lock down, from time and location-based unlocking, and back to full release, local and national communities alike have struggled – and some have succeeded – in their responses to Covid’s epidemiological impacts. Every state, every individual has been propelled back and forth along this spectrum, and the spectrum itself has been swiftly made, and overhauled by governments attempting to stay one step ahead of the spread, in lockstep with the swiftest developments in immunology and virology yet seen this century. But the spectrum cannot capture everything, including the tremendous economic and social impacts that Covid has had on societies, and indeed the most appropriate steps to take next.","PeriodicalId":45444,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42495359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Influence of CPEC–Flagship of Belt and Road Initiative on the agricultural trade of China","authors":"Majid Lateef, M. Riaz","doi":"10.1080/14765284.2021.2024485","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14765284.2021.2024485","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study investigates the potential impact of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) on its agricultural exports. A gravity model was formulated to find the determinants of China’s agricultural exports. This model uses two measures of distance: Model 1A uses the great-circle measure of distance and Model 1B uses the existing real distance used between China and its trade partners. The determinants of both models are then used to simulate China’s pre-CPEC export potential in agricultural products. The results of Model 1B are then simulated, using the proposed real distance values to calculate China’s post-CPEC agricultural export potential. The findings for pre-CPEC exports show that a strong potential for agricultural exports exists for African, Middle Eastern, and other countries. The findings for post-CPEC trade show that there will be a tremendous increase in the export potential for African and Middle Eastern countries that can be attributed to BRI.","PeriodicalId":45444,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45734220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The effects of government political visits on sustainability of energy enterprises: evidence from rare earth companies in China","authors":"Minghui Li, Chong Liu, Fang Zhang","doi":"10.1080/14765284.2021.2019446","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14765284.2021.2019446","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Against the backdrop of Sino-US trade friction, we use Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to rare earth companies as an exogenous event to investigate market investors’ pursuit effect, on 11 rare earth companies. We find that (1) Xi’s visit had an important signal effect, causing abnormal fluctuations in the stock prices and a significantly positive cumulative average abnormal return (CAAR) of the 11 companies . (2) After government political visits (GPV), firms located in developing regions, younger firms, firms with poor historical performance, and firms with high ownership concentration can generate higher cumulative excess returns than those in developed regions, more established firms, firms with better financial performance, and firms with lower ownership concentration. (3) Our findings can be interpreted from two perspectives: the information asymmetry between market investors and enterprises and the signal effects of GPV. Finally, we discuss policy recommendations from the perspective of information transfer and securities analysts.","PeriodicalId":45444,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46838546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}