China Economic Quarterly 2019-2020（Volume 19、20）

Dr. Werner Jackstädt Best Paper Award for Chinese Economic and Business Studies

The China Economic Quarterly 2019-2020（Volume 19、20）Dr. Werner Jackstädt Best Paper Award for Chinese Economic and Business Studies goes to “Internal Migration, City Size and Productivity in China”, published in No.1, Volume 19, authored by Lili Wang from Fudan University (presently working in Nankai University) and Xue Qiao from Renmin University of China.

Lili Wang

Xue Qiao

Remarks from the Award Committee：

Since the reform and opening up, China's urbanization rate has been continuously improving. The flow of labor force from rural areas to cities and from the central and western regions to the eastern coastal areas has produced a huge driving force for China's economic transformation and economic growth. However, there are still labor market frictions in China's economy, which is not conducive to the promotion of labor mobility between urban and rural areas and regions. The authors use a structural model to estimate the effect of eliminating the friction of labor flow on economic growth. In theory, this research not only promotes the correction of the relationship between the spatial mismatch of resources and economic growth, but also provides a further basis for the relevant policies of labor market reform. It is one of the best research in the related topic in recent years.

China Economic Quarterly 2019-2020（Volume 19、20）Dr. Werner Jackstädt Annual Best Paper Award Nominees(in random order):

1) Wenjia Tian, Qinghua Zhang and Liutang Gong,“Do Land Subsidies Promote Local Industrial Development?—Based on Land, Firm matched Data”. China Economic Quarterly, 2019, 19(01), pp.33-60.

2) Lili Wang and Xue Qiao, “Internal Migration, City Size and Productivity in China”, China Economic Quarterly, 2019, 19(01),  pp.165-188.

3) Haiyang Liu, Lu Gao and Lingtao Lin, “Internet and the Transformation of Export Mode”，China Economic Quarterly, 2019, 19(01), pp.261-280.

4) Feipeng Tang, “China’s Government Personnel Scale: Goods or Bads?”, China Economic Quarterly, 2020, 19(02), pp.391-410.

5) Kaiming Guo, Se Yan and Jing Hang, “Factor Endowment and Structural Transformation”，China Economic Quarterly,2020,19(04), pp.1213-1236.

6) Feng Guo ,Jingyi Wang, Fang Wang, Tao Kong, Xun Zhang and Zhiyun Cheng, “Measuring China’s Digital Financial Inclusion: Index Compilation and Spatial Characteristics”，China Economic Quarterly, 2020,19(04), pp.1401-1418.

Introduction to the China Economic Quarterly Dr. Werner Jackstädt Best Paper Award for Chinese Economic and Business Studies

In order to encourage high-quality economic research, China Economic Quarterly set up the Annual Best Paper Award since its inception. Each year one paper is selected as the best paper from the volume published in that year. Starting in 2010, the award is renamed as Dr. Werner Jackstädt Best Paper Award for Chinese Economic and Business Studies, and from 2014 the prize is set to RMB 40,000 yuan.

The winner is decided by majority votes on the nominated papers from the award committee, which is comprised of the nine editorial members of China Economic Quarterly.

This award is financially sponsored by the Dr. Jackstädt Foundation and supported by The East West Centre for Business Studies and Cultural Science at Frankfurt School.

Dr. Jackstädt was an entrepreneur who had made outstanding contribution to the post-war German economic miracle. The mission of the Dr. Jackstädt Foundation is to support the research in the field of medicine and management science, and to help the development of Wuppertal, Dr. Jackstädt’s hometown (which is also the hometown of Engels).