The 1990 Institute began publishing a series of short research papers in August 1991.

• International Experience and Pension Reform in China
  By Michael Keran and Hang-Sheng Cheng (April 2002)


• Cigarette Taxation in China: Lessons Learned from International Experiences.
  By Teh-Wei Hu (April 1999)
 
• Social Ethics in China: An Essay Contest Sponsored by The 1990 Institute and the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (December 1997)
  Contest Introduction by HS Cheng and CB Sung, The 1990 Institute
  First Prize: "The Development of Professional Ethics during China's Progress toward a Market Economy." by Li Min
  Second Prize: "Civilization Based on Ethics and Morality or Based on Law?" by Jiang Dehai
  Third Prize: "An Ethics Based on Property Rights" by Liu Min

• A Mid-Course Assessment of China's Economic Reform
  By Hang-Sheng Cheng (December 1996)
   

• China's Financial Reform and Strategies
  By Hang-Sheng Cheng, H. Gifford Fong, and Thomas Mayer (December 1996)
   

• China's Foreign Trade And Foreign Investment Law
  By Charles McClain and Hang-Sheng Cheng (December 1995)
   

• Should China Tolerate High Inflation?
  By Thomas Mayer (in English/Chinese; November 1994)
   

• China's Dual-Track Transition Toward the Market: Achievements and Problems
  By Fan Gang (August 1994)
   

• The Changing Role and Status of Women in China
  By Xie Heng ( February 1994)
   

• China on the Fast Track
  By Hang-Sheng Cheng (September 1993)
   

• Stateless Economies: The Case of Overseas Chinese Capitalism
  By Gary G. Hamilton (September 1993)
   

• The Nature of Economic Reforms in China Is the Result of Chinese Circumstances
  By Wing Thye Woo (June 1993)
   

• Wage and Labor Reform
  By Teh-Wei Hu and Elizabeth H.M. Li (October 1992 )
   

• Preliminary Summary Reports on China's Economic Reform
  By Hang-Sheng Cheng, Kung-Chia Yeh, Francis C. Tuan, Christine Wong, Anthony Y.C. Koo, Calla Wiemer, Teh-wei Hu, and Robert Michael Field (June 1992)
   

• China's Prospects as a Newly Industrialized Country
  By Richard H. Holton, Xu Yuan, Xia Yuan Lin (April 1992)
   

• The Role of Law in Inducing Foreign Investment into the PRC
  By Pitman B. Potter (January 1992)
   

• China's Economic Reform: Past, Present and Future and Lessons from China's Economic Instability, 1979 - 1990
  By Hang-Sheng Cheng (August 1991)