IF 5.2 1区经济学

中国经济评论 Pub Date : 2025-07-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2025.102488

Xiangqing Liu

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Climate change, electricity reliability, and energy structure: County-level evidence from China 气候变化、电力可靠性和能源结构：来自中国的县级证据

IF 5.2 1区经济学

中国经济评论 Pub Date : 2025-07-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2025.102500

Mingwei Yu , Fang Xia , Li Su , Feng Song

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A proposed tax reform for China: Enhancing consumption and pension sustainability 中国税制改革建议：提高消费和养老金的可持续性

IF 5.2 1区经济学

中国经济评论 Pub Date : 2025-07-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2025.102481

Zhaoyong Chen , David Leung , Joseph Mai

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The mitigating effects of blockchain adoption on supply chain financing disruptions under crises: Evidence from China 采用区块链对危机下供应链融资中断的缓解作用：来自中国的证据

IF 5.2 1区经济学

中国经济评论 Pub Date : 2025-07-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2025.102502

Haolin Li , Sirui Cheng , Xiuping Hua , Yong Wang

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Artificial intelligence and intra-firm pay dispersion: Evidence from China 人工智能与企业内部薪酬差异：来自中国的证据

IF 5.2 1区经济学

中国经济评论 Pub Date : 2025-07-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2025.102501

Tingyu Liu , Peng Huang , Qiaoru Wang

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Technology, regulation, and the transformation of bank deposit business in China 中国银行存款业务的技术、监管与转型

IF 5.2 1区经济学

中国经济评论 Pub Date : 2025-07-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2025.102497

Xinyu Ge , Yan Liu , Yutong Yang

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Industrial policies and development of grain clusters: Evidence from China's policy in major grain-producing areas 产业政策与粮食集群发展：来自中国粮食主产区政策的证据

IF 5.2 1区经济学

中国经济评论 Pub Date : 2025-07-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2025.102505

Yinze Zhang, Jianqing Ruan, Yuwei Zhang

{"title":"Industrial policies and development of grain clusters: Evidence from China's policy in major grain-producing areas","authors":"Yinze Zhang, Jianqing Ruan, Yuwei Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.chieco.2025.102505","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chieco.2025.102505","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Grain shortage remains a prominent concern in many developing countries. While clusters are recognized as effective forms of industrial organization, there is limited empirical studies regarding on which industrial policies effectively promote the development of grain clusters. This study addresses this gap by using a comprehensive dataset CCAD, which covers nearly all agro-related enterprises registered in China, through which we identified the enterprises in each link of the grain industry chain and provided a detailed account of the evolution of grain clusters. Employing a difference-in-differences strategy, we empirically evaluated the impact of China's policy in major grain-producing areas (MGPA) on grain clusters. Our findings indicate a significant contribution of the policy in MGPA to the development of grain clusters, and its impact varies across different links in the grain industry chain. Subsequent analyses reveal that the impact is driven by several mechanisms, including government fiscal support, grain subsidies, profit expectation and the the number and scale of entered grain enterprises. This study also finds that in areas where cooperatives and family farms are fully developed, policy effects are more pronounced. These findings highlight the crucial impact of industrial policies on shaping grain cluster development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48285,"journal":{"name":"中国经济评论","volume":"93 ","pages":"Article 102505"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144657074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Socially appropriate intervention: A cross-country investigation of third-party norm enforcement 社会适当干预：第三方规范执行的跨国调查

IF 5.2 1区经济学

中国经济评论 Pub Date : 2025-07-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2025.102459

Jichuan Zong , Eelke de Jong , Jianying Qiu , Jing Li

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How air pollution affects innovation value in China urban area? 大气污染如何影响中国城市创新价值？

IF 5.2 1区经济学

中国经济评论 Pub Date : 2025-07-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2025.102482

Zhuo Chen , Kunlun Wang

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Top-up design and health care expenditure: Evidence from cardiac stents 充值设计和卫生保健支出：来自心脏支架的证据

IF 5.2 1区经济学

中国经济评论 Pub Date : 2025-07-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2025.102489

Ginger Zhe Jin , Hsienming Lien , Xuezhen Tao

{"title":"Top-up design and health care expenditure: Evidence from cardiac stents","authors":"Ginger Zhe Jin , Hsienming Lien , Xuezhen Tao","doi":"10.1016/j.chieco.2025.102489","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chieco.2025.102489","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Since 2006, Taiwan’s National Health Insurance (NHI) has covered the full cost of baseline treatment in cardiac stents (bare-metal stents, BMS). Still, it requires patients to pay the price difference for more expensive treatment (drug-eluting stents, DES). Within this “top-up” design, we study how hospitals responded to a 26% cut of the NHI reimbursement rate in 2009. In contrast with hospitals with no previous revenue from stent treatment, hospitals that were more revenue-dependent on cardiac patients reduced the likelihood of stent implantation by 21.2%, increased BMS usage per stent patient by 0.10 or 11.9% but not DES usage. Furthermore, while the average DES price remains insensitive to the rate cut across the whole sample, minor teaching hospitals previously more dependent on stent patients increased the DES price and therefore could recoup at least half of the revenue loss from the NHI rate cut in 2009-2010. In general, the rate cut was effective in reducing NHI expenditure without substantial changes in patient outcomes, although some minor teaching hospitals made moral hazard adjustments in response.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48285,"journal":{"name":"中国经济评论","volume":"93 ","pages":"Article 102489"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144596408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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