Who provides the capital for Chinese growth:the public or the private sector?

Chen, Xiaodong, Minford, Patrick, Tian, Kun and Zhou, Peng (2017) Who provides the capital for Chinese growth:the public or the private sector? Applied Economics, 49 (23). pp. 2238-2252. ISSN 0003-6846

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Abstract

We focus on the role of the government in the provision of investment in China, through the medium of a Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium model of the economy in which the form of the production function reflects this governmental role. Using indirect inference, we estimate and test for the elasticity of substitution between government and nongovernment capital in both Constant Elasticity of Substitution (CES) and Cobb-Douglas technologies. The results underscore the strong substitution relationship between government and nongovernment capital from 1949, supporting CES rather than the Cobb-Douglas technology. They also show that the orientation of public investment changed after the start of the 'Socialist Market Economy' in 1992: government capital became more complementary to nongovernment capital as it focused more on infrastructure and withdrew from industrial production, intervening only in times of crisis, for stabilization purposes, indirectly via the state banks.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	china,government investment,indirect inference,economic growth,sdg 8 - decent work and economic growth ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/decent_work_and_economic_growth
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Norwich Business School
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Competition Policy Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Marketing
Related URLs:	http://orca.cf.ac.uk/96959/
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	08 Nov 2018 10:32
Last Modified:	18 Aug 2023 00:21
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/68812
DOI:	10.1080/00036846.2016.1234704

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