WU, Harry Xiaoying

Papers and Publications

Selected Journal Articles

• “Measuring Industry Level Employment, Output and Labor Productivity in the Chinese Economy, 1987-2008”, The Economic Review, 64(1), January 2013: 42-61. (Abstract)
• “Deconstructing the BRICs: Structural Transformation and Aggregate Productivity Growth”, with Gaaitzen de Vries, Abdul A Erumban, Marcel P Timmer, Ilya B. Voskoboynikov, Journal of Comparative Economics, 40(2), May 2012: 211-227. (ScienceDirect)
• “Growth, Institutions, and Entrepreneurial Finance in China: A Survey”, with Carlo Milana, Strategic Change: Briefings in Entrepreneurial Finance, 21(3-4), May 2012: 83-106. (Wiley Online)
• “The Real Growth of Chinese Industry Debate Revisited —Reconstructing China’s Industrial GDP in 1949-2008—”, The Economic Review, 62(3), Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, 2011: 209-224. (Abstract)
• “Comparative Output and Labor Productivity in Manufacturing Between China, Japan, Korea and the United States for ca. 1935? A Production-Side PPP Approach”, with Tangjun Yuan and Kyoji Fukao, Explorations in Economic History, 47(3), 2010: 325–346. (ScienceDirect)
• “More Costly or More Productive? Measuring Changes in Competitiveness in Manufacturing Across Regions in China”, with Vivian Chen and Bart van Ark, The Review of Income and Wealth, 55 (Issue Supplement s1), July 2009: 514–537.
• “Measuring Growth, Productivity, Income Distribution and Poverty in Transition Economies: Progress, Challenges and Prospects”, with Peter Saunders, The Review of Income and Wealth, 55 (Issue Supplement s1), July 2009: 413–422.
• “Measuring China’s Economic PerformaWorld Economicsnce”, with Angus Maddison, World Economics, 9(2), (by Economic Department, Oxford University), April-June 2008: 13-44.
• “Measuring Productivity Performance by Industry in China 1980-2005”, International Productivity Monitor, 15, Fall 2007: 55-74.
• “The Chinese GDP Growth Rate Puzzle: How Fast Has the Chinese Economy Grown?”, Asian Economic Papers, 6(1), (MIT Press), 2007: 1-24.
• “Not all currency traders believe in unfettered free markets: Currency speculation and market intervention in Hong Kong,” The China Quarterly, 170, June 2002: 441-458.
• “How fast has Chinese industry grown? - Measuring the real output of Chinese industry”, The Review of Income and Wealth, 48(2), 2002: 179-204.
• “China’s comparative labour productivity performance in manufacturing, 1952-1997: Catching up or falling behind?” China Economic Review, 12, 2001: 162-189.
• “Measuring China’s GDP level and growth performance: Alternative estimates and the implications”, The Review of Income and Wealth, 46(4), 2000: 475-499.
• “Reform of China’s foreign exchange regime and its implications in the light of the Asian financial crisis”, MOCT-MOST Economic Policy in Transitional Economies, 8(3), 1998: 81-105.
• “Household income determination and regional income differential in rural China”, with Xin Meng, Asia Economic Journal, 12(1), 1998: 65-88.
• “Economic reforms and endogenous technological change: The case of Chinese agriculture”, with D.T. Nguyen, Asia-Pacific Economic Review, 3(1), 1997: 43-61.
• “Household grain consumption in China: Effects of income, price and urbanisation”, with Yanrui Wu, Asia Economic Journal, 11(3), 1997: 325-342.
• “The direct impact of relocation of farm labour on Chinese grain production”, with Xin Meng, China Economic Review, 7(2), 1996: 105-122.
• “Do Chinese farmers reinvest in grain production?”, with Xin Meng, China Economic Review, 7(2), 1996: 123-134.
• “Rural-to-urban labour migration in post reform China”, with Li Zhou, Asian Pacific Economic Literature, 1996, Vol. 10(2): 54-67.
• “Rural to Urban Migration in the People's Republic of China”, The China Quarterly, 139, September 1994: 670-698.
• “The “Real” Chinese Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in for Pre-Reform Period 1952-1977”, Review of Income and Wealth, 39(1), 1993: 63-87.

Books

• Growth, Productivity and Income Distribution - Macro- and Micro-Measurement Issues in Transition Economies, co-authored with Xu Xianchun, Yue Ximing and Li Shi (eds), Peking University Press, 2011.
• The Making of China’s Exchange Rate Policy, co-authored with Leong Liew (Griffith University), Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, London, 2007.
• China Embraces the Market, Achievements, Constraints and Opportunities, co-authored with F. Perkins, A. Spear, G. Mina and S. Lin, under the name of East Asia Analytical Unit, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia, Canberra, 1997.
• Rural Enterprises in China, co-edited with Christopher Findlay and Andrew Watson, Macmillan Press, London, 1994.
• The Ideology of Economic Liberalism, co-authored with Weiping Zhang, Sanlian Publishing House, Beijing, 1989.

Translated Books

• A Chinese translation of Angus Maddison, The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective (OECD, 2001), with Xu Xianchun, Ye Yanfei and Shi Faqi, Peking University Press, November, 2003 (654,000 words, 403 pages)
• A Chinese translation of Angus Maddison, The World Economy: Historical Statistics (OECD, 2003), with Shi Faqi, Peking University Press, January, 2009 (438,000 words, 282 pages)
• A Chinese translation of Angus Maddison, Chinese Economic Performance in the Long Run 960-2030 (OECD, 2008), with Debin Ma, Shanghai People’s Press, March, 2008 (257,000 words, 209 pages)

Book Chapters

• “Rethinking China’s Path of Industrialization”, in Adam Szirmai, Wim Naudé, and Ludovico Alcorta (eds)., Pathways to Industrialisation in the 21st Century – New Challenges and Emerging Paradigms, Oxford University Press, May 2013: 155-192.
• “China”, (Institutions, Domestic Financial Architecture and Macro Volatility), with Esther Y.P. Shea, in Jose M. Fanelli (ed.), Macroeconomic Volatility, Institutions and Financial Architecture, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008: 125-156.
• “Comparative productivity performance in manufacturing between Taiwan and mainland China. 1961-97”, with Xinpeng Xu, in Robert Ash and J. Megan Greene (eds.), Taiwan in the 21st Century: Aspects and Limitations of A Development Model, London and New York: Routledge, 2007: 100-127.
• “How fast has the PRC economy grown?”, in Bishnu Dev Pant (ed.), The National Accounts of the People’s Republic of China ? Measurement Issues, Recent Developments, and the Way Forward, Asian Development Bank, Manila, Philippines, 2007: 39-57.
• “Data Collection Methods and Problems in the Statistical Practice of PRC: The Case of Zhejiang Province”, in Bishnu Dev Pant (ed.), The National Accounts of the People’s Republic of China ? Measurement Issues, Recent Developments, and the Way Forward, Asian Development Bank, 2007: 201-212.
• “Industrial Output and Labour Productivity in China 1949-1994: A Reassessment”, in Maddison, A., W.F. Shepherd and D.S. Prasada Rao (eds.), The Asian Economies in the Twentieth Century, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., London, 2002: 82-101.
• “The long-run comparative labour productivity in Chinese and US manufacturing, 1952-97”, in Peter Lloyd and Xiaoguang Zhang (eds.), China and the World Economy, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., London, 2000, pp. 86-105.
• “The Impact of the Economic Reforms on Agricultural Growth”, with D.T. Nguyen, in Kali P. Kalirajan and Yanrui Wu (eds.), Productivity and Growth in Chinese Agriculture, Macmillan Press, 1999: 52-99.
• “The Implications of Grain Market Reform for China’s International Grain Trade”, with C. Findlay, A. Watson and E. Cheng, in C. Findlay and A. Watson (eds.), Food Security and Economic Reform: The Challenges Facing China’s Grain Marketing System, Macmillan Press, London, 1999: 220-236.
• “Grain Demand”, in C. Findlay and A. Watson (eds.), Food Security and Economic Reform: The Challenges Facing China’s Grain Marketing System, Macmillan Press, London, 1999: 62-79.
• “Fiscal decentralisation, regionalism and uneven development in China”, with C. Findlay and A. Watson, in Christine Fletcher (ed.), Equity and Development Across Nations: Political and Fiscal Realities, Allen & Unwin, Australia, 1996: 120-152.
• “Rural Enterprise Contribution to Growth and Structural Change”, in C. Findlay, A. Watson and H. X. Wu (eds.), Rural Enterprises in China, Macmillan Press, London, 1994: 39-68.
• “Regional Disparities in Rural Enterprise Growth”, with A. Watson, in C. Findlay, A Watson and H. X. Wu (eds.), Rural Enterprises in China, Macmillan Press, London, 1994: 69-92.
• “The Rural Industrial Workforce”, in C. Findlay, A. Watson and H. X. Wu (eds.), Rural Enterprises in China, Macmillan Press, London, 1994: 117-147.
• “Rural Enterprise Growth and Efficiency”, with Yanrui Wu, in C. Findlay, A. Watson and H. X. Wu (eds.), Rural Enterprises in China, Macmillan Press, London, 1994: 148-172.
• “Rural Enterprises in China: Overview, Issues and Prospects”, with C. Findlay and A. Watson, in C. Findlay, A. Watson and H. X. Wu (eds.), Rural Enterprises in China, Macmillan Press, London, 1994: 173-190.