C Simon Fan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1000844 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Simon Fan |
| GIVEN NAMES | C Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | Fan |
| SIGNATURE | FAN C S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lingnan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0955-5523 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Culture, Institution, and Development in China
How does culture shape history, and history shape culture? This book answers this question by bringing readers on a fascinating journey through the evolution of Chinese culture, political and legal institutions, and "national character" of historical and contemporary China. It illustrates how "national character" evolves endogenously along with an institutional environment through the use of economic theories. Recognizing the unique role of "pers…
Does parental absence reduce cognitive achievements? Evidence from rural China
Many children worldwide are left-behind by parents migrating for work — over 61 million in rural China alone, almost half of whom are left-behind by both parents. While previous literature considers impacts of one parent absent on educational inputs (e.g., study time, enrollment, schooling attainment), this study directly investigates impacts on children's learning (test scores) and distinguishes impacts of absence of one versus both parents. Dyn…
Differential fertility and intergenerational mobility under private versus public education
Political decentralization and corruption
The Law of One Price
This paper applies the recently developed econometric methods of panel unit root tests and nonlinear mean reversion to investigate price convergence in China--the largest transitional economy in the world. We find that prices did converge to the law of one price in China for an overwhelming majority of goods and services, based on a large panel data set. The finding sheds light on the extent of the market economy in China, and casts doubt on Youn…
International migration and “educated unemployment”
Increasing Returns, Product Quality and International Trade
This paper examines the roles of quality and increasing returns in trade. It implies that there is intense intra‐industry trade among economies with similar levels of per capita income, which increases both the quality and the quantity of consumption. However, there may be no trade in manufactured goods between rich and poor countries because of the disparity in their optimal qualities of consumption and the high complementarity of the qualities …
Survival of the gene, intergenerational transfers and precautionary saving
Does Trade Lead to Wage Inequality? A Cross-industry Analysis
This paper investigates empirically the impact of increasing volume of trade on wage inequality in four industrial sectors in Hong Kong. We generate the hypotheses within the context of the Heckscher-Ohlin model, and use the cointegration techniques to test the hypotheses. Because of the large volume of trade between Hong Kong and Mainland China, this empirical study contributes to the lively debate in recent economic literature about the effects…
A model of endogenous divorce and endogenous fertility
Post‐reform productivity performance in Guangdong
The rapid economic growth in China for the past two decades has recently attracted much attention among economists measuring the post‐reform productivity performance in China. What has been generally ignored in this literature, however, is the heterogeneity of growth performance in different regions in China. In particular, Guangdong province has had a growth rate that is far above the national average. In fact, the growth performance in Guangdon…
Why China has been successful in attracting foreign direct investment
An important factor that has contributed significantly to China's economic growth over the past two decades has been the dramatic increase of foreign direct investment in China. Based on the observation that overseas Chinese have been the dominant supplier of foreign direct investment in China, this paper employs the transaction cost approach to provide an explanation as to why China has been successful in attracting foreign direct investment. It…
Does parental absence reduce cognitive achievements? Evidence from rural China
Many children worldwide are left-behind by parents migrating for work — over 61 million in rural China alone, almost half of whom are left-behind by both parents. While previous literature considers impacts of one parent absent on educational inputs (e.g., study time, enrollment, schooling attainment), this study directly investigates impacts on children's learning (test scores) and distinguishes impacts of absence of one versus both parents. Dyn…
International migration and “educated unemployment”
Why China has been successful in attracting foreign direct investment
An important factor that has contributed significantly to China's economic growth over the past two decades has been the dramatic increase of foreign direct investment in China. Based on the observation that overseas Chinese have been the dominant supplier of foreign direct investment in China, this paper employs the transaction cost approach to provide an explanation as to why China has been successful in attracting foreign direct investment. It…
Differential fertility and intergenerational mobility under private versus public education
A model of endogenous divorce and endogenous fertility
Post‐reform productivity performance in Guangdong
The rapid economic growth in China for the past two decades has recently attracted much attention among economists measuring the post‐reform productivity performance in China. What has been generally ignored in this literature, however, is the heterogeneity of growth performance in different regions in China. In particular, Guangdong province has had a growth rate that is far above the national average. In fact, the growth performance in Guangdon…
Why China has been successful in attracting foreign direct investment
An important factor that has contributed significantly to China's economic growth over the past two decades has been the dramatic increase of foreign direct investment in China. Based on the observation that overseas Chinese have been the dominant supplier of foreign direct investment in China, this paper employs the transaction cost approach to provide an explanation as to why China has been successful in attracting foreign direct investment. It…
A model of endogenous divorce and endogenous fertility
Does Trade Lead to Wage Inequality? A Cross-industry Analysis
This paper investigates empirically the impact of increasing volume of trade on wage inequality in four industrial sectors in Hong Kong. We generate the hypotheses within the context of the Heckscher-Ohlin model, and use the cointegration techniques to test the hypotheses. Because of the large volume of trade between Hong Kong and Mainland China, this empirical study contributes to the lively debate in recent economic literature about the effects…
Survival of the gene, intergenerational transfers and precautionary saving
Increasing Returns, Product Quality and International Trade
This paper examines the roles of quality and increasing returns in trade. It implies that there is intense intra‐industry trade among economies with similar levels of per capita income, which increases both the quality and the quantity of consumption. However, there may be no trade in manufactured goods between rich and poor countries because of the disparity in their optimal qualities of consumption and the high complementarity of the qualities …
The Law of One Price
This paper applies the recently developed econometric methods of panel unit root tests and nonlinear mean reversion to investigate price convergence in China--the largest transitional economy in the world. We find that prices did converge to the law of one price in China for an overwhelming majority of goods and services, based on a large panel data set. The finding sheds light on the extent of the market economy in China, and casts doubt on Youn…
International migration and “educated unemployment”
Political decentralization and corruption
Differential fertility and intergenerational mobility under private versus public education
Does parental absence reduce cognitive achievements? Evidence from rural China
Many children worldwide are left-behind by parents migrating for work — over 61 million in rural China alone, almost half of whom are left-behind by both parents. While previous literature considers impacts of one parent absent on educational inputs (e.g., study time, enrollment, schooling attainment), this study directly investigates impacts on children's learning (test scores) and distinguishes impacts of absence of one versus both parents. Dyn…
Culture, Institution, and Development in China
How does culture shape history, and history shape culture? This book answers this question by bringing readers on a fascinating journey through the evolution of Chinese culture, political and legal institutions, and "national character" of historical and contemporary China. It illustrates how "national character" evolves endogenously along with an institutional environment through the use of economic theories. Recognizing the unique role of "pers…
Economics (11 works) · Political science (7 works) · Economic Growth and Productivity (6 works) · China (5 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Demographic economics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Demography (3 works) · Demography (3 works)