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We model organization as the command-and-communication network of managers erected on top of technology (which is modeled as a collection of plants). In our framework, the role of a manager is to deal with shocks that af...Read more...
Eric Maskin, Yingyi Qian and Chenggang Xu
October 1997
In the twenty years since the Cultural Revolution, China has maintained fast real growth. This occurred despite China having similar problems to other transitional economies, eg loss-making State Owned Enterprises (SOEs)...Read more...
C Goodhart and Chenggang Xu
July 1996
This paper concerns the paradoxes and dilemmas that the very successful 'Chinese model' presents for transition theory. The 'Chinese model' is centered on the development of township-village enterprises. The main purpose...Read more...
M Weitzman and Chenggang Xu
June 1993
China's thirteen years of reforms (1979-1991) have achieved an average GNP annual growth rate of 8.6%. What makes China's reforms from those of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union is the sustained entry and expansion o...Read more...
Yingyi Qian and Chenggang Xu
Because of the 'too-early-to know' feature of innovation, the promotion of innovation in a given system critically depends on the screening mechanisms which terminate inefficient projects. Information imperfection togeth...Read more...
November 1992
In this paper I first present evidence to show that there is a labor shortage problem caused by insufficient rural-urban migration in Chinese urban/sub-urban areas. Moreover, people in poor rural areas migrate less than ...Read more...
Chenggang Xu