Table of Contents
Part I. Introduction1. Economic Reform in Chinese Industry: Efficiency and Instability, Y. Y. Kueh2. Nature and Scope of the Survey Data, Joseph C. H. Chai, Gang Fan, and Y. Y. KuehPart II. Enterprise Behaviour and Efficiency3. Readjustment of the Managerial and Organizational Structure of Chinese Enterprises, Mee-kau Nyaw4. Measuring the Changing Degree of Enterprise Autonomy and Constraints, Shuguang Zhang and Y. Y. Kueh5. Employment Policy and Productive Efficiency as Alternative Managerial Objectives, Hing-lin Chan and Shu-kam Lee6. The Contract Responsibility System and X-efficiency in the Machine Industry, Pak-hung Mo and Sung-ko Li7. Investment Financing and the Profitability Criterion, Y. Y. Kueh8. Marketization, Regional Economic Integration, and the Profit Criterion, Pak-hung Mo and Shui-pui TongPart III. Macroeconomic Instability9. Industrial Reform as a Major Cause of Inflation, Gang Fan10. Wage Reforms and the Effectiveness of Aggregate Wage Target Control, Zhongwei Yang and Zhineng Han11. Empirical Evidence of the ‘Twin Expansion' of Investment and Wage Outlay, Shu-ki Tsang and Yuk-shing Cheng12. Hardening ‘Budget Constraint' to Control Inflation under the Two-Track System, Joseph C. H. Chai and Clem Tisdell13. Macroeconomic Policies, Financial Conditions, and Enterprise Behaviour, Cheng Wang and Shu-ki TsangPart IV. Conclusion14. Prospects for a Transition to a Market Economy without Runaway Inflation, Y. Y. KuehApp 1. A Note on the Changing Quantitative Importance of State-owned Large and Medium-scale Industrial Enterprises in China, 1980-1994, Y. Y. Y. KuehApp 2. Major Production and Financial Statistics for the 300 Sample Satte-owned Large and Medium-scale Industrial Enterprises in Comparison with the National Aggregates for the Large and Medium-scale Industrial Enterprises and Other Categories of Industrial Establishments, 1980-1994, Y. Y. Kueh
