A Survey of China’s Macroeconomic Performance in 2014

Abstract

AbstractTo keep abreast of the macroeconomic situation and policy trend, an annual questionnaire survey of China’s macroeconomic situation and policy started in January 2014 for the second time, hold by the Economic Information Daily, Xinhua News Agency and the Center for Macroeconomic Research, Xiamen University (one of the Key Research Institutes of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education of China). There were 18 questions directly about China’s macroeconomic situation and policy trend in the questionnaire, and we invited some domestic economists in relevant area for this survey by email in the early of January, and finally got responses from 57 of them. This survey offered the latest understandings and judgments of experts concerning challenges in China’s recent macro-economy, recent China’s local government debt risk problems, macroeconomic situation of Europe and U.S.A., trends of some major indicators about China’s macro-economy and trends of China’s macroeconomic policies in 2014. The results of this survey are presented as follows:KeywordsMonetary PolicyHousing PriceFiscal PolicyReal Estate MarketEuro ZoneThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.