Wednesday, December 15, 2010

How to start a problem-oriented economic research in China

 Thank academic friend sent me a report, Professor interviews and comments of several peers. Readers may also in the Royal Canadian Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, Foreign Member. National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) researchers, the European Economic Advisors CESifo Research Office, the global economy, the Canadian Centre for Global Governance Innovation (CIGI), chief researcher. Computable General Equilibrium Model of the main pioneer, international trade, computable general equilibrium, public economics and development economics, a senior research professor, was to China, and government departments, major research institutions, universities, scholars and academic exchanges. I think the economics of China, there is a need to attract attention to the phenomenon, many young scholars trying to follow and emulate Western economic scholars. However, journal papers in North America and Europe used many theoretical models and empirical research does not apply directly used for the study of China. My advice is based on the situation in China some adjustments and amendments, such as in a simple model of the classical optimization based on adding some things with Chinese characteristics, such as the collective sense of identity, all the people all of the production units (state-owned enterprises), and others. Some young Chinese scholars seem to ignore China's national conditions, blindly imitate the mechanical paradigm of international journal papers . just a simple neoclassical model will be applied mechanically to the problem of China's economy may lead to errors.
an important feature of China's economy is state-owned enterprises and non state-owned enterprises sector structure, departmental structure, which is quite foreign the same. Another is a characteristic identity, collective identity, rather than individual identity. I've read written by some Western scholars on the Chinese labor market supply behavior of paper, they described in the paper is the utility function of consumption and leisure goods function, without taking into account the family. In China, everyone is working for the family, taking into account the individual interests of the family decision-making,UGG boots, so we need to give when doing research in the utility function of the family. Western civilization's emphasis on self-centered the values of individual equality and freedom, every individual is a separate entity. and Eastern Confucian culture emphasizes the group value, the family is composed of individual units of society, the individual is always in the Confucian view that individuals, families, community networks into.
If only the western model directly without any correction applied to the problem of the Chinese economy may come to misleading conclusions. on my experiences in China, I and age class of Chinese scholars through in-depth exchanges, when I was living in decision-making, and some senior Chinese economists (such as over the age of sixty or six) to exchange, they are also worried about this phenomenon, some young scholars trying to direct use of Western theories to explain China many problems in the economy, these young scholars, whether they truly understand and accurately explain the cautious on China. So, I feel their country is now a senior economist and policy-making center may exist between young scholars a lot of perceived knowledge of the structural differences and the generation gap. young scholars hope that the next few decades, China's economic research more quickly close to the West, but if ignored the concerns of the Chinese reality, this may be some problems.
some Chinese attention of young scholars studying model technology, and less concerned about the Chinese economy. As far as I know, probably because the current in China, published in international journals is very important for career advancement conditions. Some young scholars in their academic career The most important thing in North America and Europe published a paper to improve the international ranking, in order to obtain professional promotion, and international journals often do not concern the characteristics of the Chinese economy. in political science, American politics and Canadian politics is a different course because the national political system is very different. In economics, usually Madagascar and France, the United States by the same research methods to deal with. However, it should be taken into account in the economics of the characteristics of different countries, in my opinion to this point for the study is particularly important when the Chinese economy.
nearly three decades, with a computable general equilibrium policy analysis technology has been one of my research. We should pay more attention to the article ideological, rather than model,cheap UGG boots, the number of equations, and the level of detail the structure equation. In addition, the conclusions for the numerical simulation of the application to be careful, these results are informative, not accurate, can not be directly used for policy decisions accurately, and only provide adequate directions for.
Western U.S. financial crisis led economists to strengthen the economic problems of real concern, I think, this might also be something to Chinese scholars, especially for young scholars in China and Introduction.

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