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OpinionsDavid Daokui Li: Establish mechanisms for bolstering the market economy and spurring the development potential of unicorn enterprises
On March 30, the Global Unicorn Company Conference was convened during the 2025 Zhongguancun Forum Annual Conference. David Daokui Li, director of the Academic Center for Chinese Economic Practice and Thinking (ACCEPT) at Tsinghua University, commented at the conference that the size of China’s market is immense, which therefore makes it easier for new enterprises to grow at a faster pace. Moreover, the scale of the country’s market is still in the process of further expanding, providing a solidBeijing Business Today -
Academic PapersJournal Article: "Can the American Economy Maintain its Rapid Growth Momentum? Post-Pandemic Macroeconomic Analysis of the United States and China's Response"
From the perspective of macroeconomic statistics and capital markets, the economy of the United States has maintained robust momentum after the COVID-19 pandemic, with some viewing the country as reclaiming the West's position as the central driving force behind the world economy, forever reversing the trend in the world economy of a rising East and a declining West.David Daokui Li, Lin Lu, Ke'aobo Li -
ReportsACCEPT Report: "Analysis of the Economic Operation Situation under the Mismatch of Infrastructure Financing and 'Heavy Production and Light Consumption': Looking Forward to the New Cycle of China's Economic Growth"
China's economy has substantial potential demand and supply, with enormous long-term growth prospects. However, it is currently facing two fundamental issues: infrastructure financing mismatch and the production-centered economic institutions. These problems have caused actual economic growth to fall below its potential level. To ensure the achievement of basic modernization by 2035, these two issues must be addressed through comprehensive reforms as soon as possible. Infrastructure financing miACCEPT Macro Forecasting Group -
Academic PapersJournal Article: "Conceptualizing, Calculating and Internationally Comparing Supply Chain Security"
Supply chain security is an interdisciplinary research question, with each discipline giving rise to divergences in its conceptualization, including lacking quantitative research at the national level. This article adopts the perspectives of national security to develop a framework for the conceptualization and quantitative calculation of supply chain security.Lang Kun, Zhao Kejin
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Seventh Annual Conference of Government and Economics successfully convened at Tsinghua University
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Daron Acemoglu: Reform of government agencies involves eliminating ineffective regulations while focusing on underregulated areas
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Dani Rodrik: Service industry is critically important for creating high-quality employment opportunities
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Guo Yong: Tsinghua University to continue championing the development of government and economics as an emerging field of study
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Government and Economics
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New structural economics: A framework of studying government and economics
AbstractNew structural economics is a new framework for rethinking economic development following structuralism and neoliberalism after World War II. This framework uses a neoclassical approach to study the determinants of economic structure and its evolution in a countrys economic development (Lin, 2011). We argue that a countrys economic structure is endogenous to its factor endowments, and that the key for developmental success is to have a facilitating government to help entrepreneurs overcoJustin Yifu Lin -
Migration and redistribution: Why the federal governance of an economic union does matter
Federal governance matters. Policy coordination allows the economic union to exercise monopsony power over migrants. Therefore the migration volumes under the policycompetition regime exceed those under the policy-coordination regime. With loose federal governance, competition over low-skilled migrants, who come with no capital, induces the individual member state to raise the provision of social benefit, so as to attract more migrants when starting from the coordination equilibrium. As a resultAssaf Razin, Efraim Sadka -
Government and economics: An emerging field of study
In this paper, we discuss the field of government and economics, an emerging body of work that aims to better understand government's role, incentives and behavior in a modern market economy, as well as how government actions shape the economy's performance.David Daokui Li, Eric S. Maskin -
Zheng Zhijie: Respect the market and improve the role of government
Excerpts from Zheng Zhijie's presentation at “Collapse and Rebirth” – IFENG Finance 9thSummit, translated by ACCEPTIn his remarks at the IFENG Finance 9thSummit, Zheng Zhijie, Former President of the China Development Bank, pointed out that the 14thFive-Year Plan period is a critical time for China to overcome the middle-income trap. To make full use of this decisive time, the first priority is to comprehensively deepen reforms to promote better integration of effective markets and capable goverExcerpts from Zheng Zhijie's presentation at “Collapse and Rebirth” – IFENG Finance 9th Summit, translated by ACCEPT -
Public Health, Elementary Education and Infrastructure Constitutes the Foundation of Future Economic Development
In the early years of the People's Republic of China, war, famine and infectious diseases made it difficult to ensure the basic health level of the people. In 1949, the average life expectancy in China was only 35 years, and the infant mortality rate was as high as 200‰1. Faced with such rigorous challenges and the lack of medical resources, China urgently needed to build a public health system to solve the most basic medical problems of the people.excerpted from Economic Lessons from 70 Years of China's Development
The Journal of Government and Economics is focused on publishing high caliber, original research papers in the field of government and economics. This journal aims to provide a platform for the exchange of insights on the relationship between the government and the market, create space for the development of the emerging field of government and economics, and foster a better understanding of the government's role in the market economy, as well as the government's incentives and behaviors. JGE is an international publication and the official publication of SAGE. It is also an open access (OA) and rapidly publishing (ABP) journal.
The Society for the Analysis of Government and Economics, SAGE, aims to promote academic research in the subject of government and economics, including topics such as the incentives, behavior, and role of the government in an economy. The Society is a disinterested, academic organization avoiding political, social, commercial, or nationalistic bias. The inaugural co-presidents of SAGE are 2007 Nobel Laureate Harvard Professor Eric S. Maskin and Professor David Daokui Li of Tsinghua University. The Society has an open international membership from countries such as the United States, Europe, China, and other developing countries. Main activities of the Society include organizing academic conferences and publishing an academic journal.
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