What is happening to China's GDP statistics?

Rawski, Thomas G.

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“…Moreover, even for later reformers we lose annual observations that would be useful for a precise estimation of the within-city e¤ect of the establishment of a SEZ. 57 We also check the robustness of our results by using electricity consumption as a proxy of economic activity (see, e.g., Rawski 2001). Data on electricity consumption by households and …rms are reported in the same statistical yearbooks as GDP and are available only for the urban core.…”

Section: Satellite Light As An Alternative Measure Of Gdpmentioning

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Economic Reforms and Industrial Policy in a Panel of Chinese Cities

2013

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We study the effect of place-based industrial policy on economic development, focusing on the establishment of Special Economic Zones (SEZ) in China. We use data from a panel of Chinese (prefecture-level) cities from 1988 to 2010. Our difference-in-difference estimation exploits the variation in the establishment of SEZ across time and space. We find that the establishment of a state-level SEZ is associated with an increase in the level of GDP of about 20 %. This finding is confirmed with alternative specifications and in a sub-sample of inland provinces, where the selection of cities to host the zones was based on administrative criteria. The main channel is a positive effect on physical capital accumulation, although SEZ also have a positive effect on total factor productivity and human capital investments. We also investigate whether there are spillover effects of SEZ on neighboring regions or cities further away. We find positive and often significant spillover effects. AbstractWe study the e¤ect of place-based industrial policy on economic development, focusing on the establishment of Special Economic Zones (SEZ) in China. We use data from a panel of Chinese (prefecture-level) cities from 1988 to 2010. Our di¤erence-in-di¤erence estimation exploits the variation in the establishment of SEZ across time and space. We …nd that the establishment of a state-level SEZ is associated with an increase in the level of GDP of about 20%. This …nding is con…rmed with alternative speci…cations and in a sub-sample of inland provinces, where the selection of cities to host the zones was based on administrative criteria. The main channel is a positive e¤ect on physical capital accumulation, although SEZ also have a positive e¤ect on total factor productivity and human capital investments. We also investigate whether there are spillover e¤ects of SEZ on neighboring regions or cities further away. We …nd positive and often signi…cant spillover e¤ects.JEL Codes. H72, L52, O25, O38, O53, P21, R11.

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Section: Satellite Light As An Alternative Measure Of Gdpmentioning

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Economic Reforms and Industrial Policy in a Panel of Chinese Cities

2013

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“…With China's statistical system switching from the Soviet Material Product System to the System of National Accounts in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the officially reported growth rate of GDP is expected to be close to the real growth rate. But some analysts (e.g., Rawski, 2001) have argued that the official growth rates in the 1990s even further deviated from the real growth rates. For example, Wang and Meng (2001) Mtce, as given in Table 4.…”

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Why Did the Energy Intensity Fall in China's Industrial Sector in the 1990s? The Relative Importance of Structural Change and Intensity Change

Zhang

2001

SSRN Journal

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“…Previous studies on GDP and EPC have mainly used statistical data for administrative units [1][2][3][4]. For instance, using GDP statistical data, Mehrotra et al [5] evaluated the dynamics of GDP growth for China against alternative indicators.…”

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Evaluating the Ability of NPP-VIIRS Nighttime Light Data to Estimate the Gross Domestic Product and the Electric Power Consumption of China at Multiple Scales: A Comparison with DMSP-OLS Data

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Abstract:The nighttime light data records artificial light on the Earth's surface and can be used to estimate the spatial distribution of the gross domestic product (GDP) and the electric power consumption (EPC). In early 2013, the first global NPP-VIIRS nighttime light data were released by the Earth Observation Group of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Geophysical Data Center (NOAA/NGDC). As new-generation data, NPP-VIIRS data have a higher spatial resolution and a wider radiometric detection range than the traditional DMSP-OLS nighttime light data. This study aims to investigate the potential of NPP-VIIRS data in modeling GDP and EPC at multiple scales through a case study of China. A series of preprocessing procedures are proposed to reduce the background noise of original data and to generate corrected NPP-VIIRS nighttime light images. Subsequently, linear regression is used to fit the correlation between the total nighttime light (TNL) (which is extracted from corrected NPP-VIIRS data and DMSP-OLS data) and the OPEN ACCESSRemote Sens. 2014, 6 1706 GDP and EPC (which is from the country's statistical data) at provincial-and prefectural-level divisions of mainland China. The result of the linear regression shows that R 2 values of TNL from NPP-VIIRS with GDP and EPC at multiple scales are all higher than those from DMSP-OLS data. This study reveals that the NPP-VIIRS data can be a powerful tool for modeling socioeconomic indicators; such as GDP and EPC.

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What is happening to China's GDP statistics?

Cited by 353 publications

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Economic Reforms and Industrial Policy in a Panel of Chinese Cities

Economic Reforms and Industrial Policy in a Panel of Chinese Cities

Why Did the Energy Intensity Fall in China's Industrial Sector in the 1990s? The Relative Importance of Structural Change and Intensity Change

Evaluating the Ability of NPP-VIIRS Nighttime Light Data to Estimate the Gross Domestic Product and the Electric Power Consumption of China at Multiple Scales: A Comparison with DMSP-OLS Data

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