The Economics of Price Scissors: An Empirical Investigation for China*
Justin Lin[1] Miaojie Yu[2]
China Center for Economic Research, Peking University
NO. E 2008001 April 2008
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* We thank Joaquim Silvestre, Arne Bigsten, Chia-Shang Chu, Yundan Gong, John Knight, David Li, Zhigang Li, Christer Ljungwall, Jie Ma, Chor-yin Sin, Zheng Song, Yong Wong, Bin Xu, and Dingbo Xu for their helpful comments. We also thank seminar and conference participants at Göteberg University, the 2007 CERC-CCER world economy on China at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE), the third annual global institute China-Russia international conference, CCER, School of Economics of Peking University, China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), Fudan University, WISE of Xiamen University, and Seoul National University for their comments. We also thank Wei Tian and Min Zhang for their excellent research assistance. All remaining errors are ours.
[1] Director and Professor, China Center for Economic Research, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China. Phone: 86-10-6275-3082, Fax: 86-10-6275-1474, Email: justinlin@ccer.pku.edu.cn.
[2] Assistant Professor, China Center for Economic Research, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China. Phone: 86-10-6275-3109, Fax: 86-10-6275-1474, Email: mjyu@ccer.pku.edu.cn.
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