The Chinese Economy

DISPI, University of Genoa · Francesco Manaresi

Syllabus and slides, lecture by lecture. New lectures appear here as the course goes on.

LecturesBlockSyllabus pages
1Foundations
History and institutions, from 1800 to 1978
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2-3Causality
The method: what a cause is, and how economists find one
4-5Reallocation across sectors
From the farm to the factory: GDP, hukou, migration
6Reallocation within sectors
Firms, state-owned enterprises, misallocation
7-8Trade
Growth, the WTO, tariffs and trade wars
9-11Innovation
China at the Frontier
12Conclusions

Credits and image licences