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The Fall and Rise of State-Owned Enterprises (II): The Institutional Root of the Chinese Dual Head Economy

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An Economic Analysis of the Rise and Decline of Chinese Township and Village Enterprises

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Almost all the relevant literature, especially that before 2003, highlights the low efficiency status of Chinese SOEs (see, for example Huang 2003; Zhou and Wang 2000; Sheng and Zhao 2012). More recently, however, the orthodox view has changed, as careful statistically based empirical studies (e.g., Zhang 2005; Wang 2005; Ma 2011; Hao et al. 2012; Wei and Rong 2012) have shown SOEs to have become increasingly prosperous.

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Jin, C. (2017). The Fall and Rise of State-Owned Enterprises (II): The Institutional Root of the Chinese Dual Head Economy. In: An Economic Analysis of the Rise and Decline of Chinese Township and Village Enterprises. Palgrave Studies in Economic History. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59770-6_6

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