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China's Industrial Transfer Policy (ITP) is a novel place-based development policy of unprecedented scale. The policy … would eventually relieve pressure in China's coastal manufacturing hubs. We use a detailed migrant survey to estimate the …
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Existing indices measuring the spatial distribution of economic activity such as the Krugman Specialisation Index, the Hirschmann-Herfindahl index and the Ellison-Glaeser index typically do not take into account the spatial structure of the data. In this paper, we first consider traditional...
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This paper reviews the empirical literature on growth and convergence that has addressed the importance of spatial factors. An important distinction in this literature is the one between absolute and relative location. The literature on absolute location predominantly uses non-spatial...
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and productivity of firms in designated areas. We use unique panel data from China with information on manufacturing firms …
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This paper addresses the timing of a location's historical transition from rural to urban activity. We test whether urbanization occurs sooner in places with higher agricultural potential and comparatively lower transport costs, using worldwide data that divide the earth's surface at half-degree...
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During the last decades, the growth of trade between China and the Netherlands has been larger than the increase in … bilateral trade flows between China and most other countries. Using a time series based gravity model, this paper investigates …-house offshoring to China is a major determinant of Dutch import growth from China. Dutch firms tend to offshore production in …
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This paper studies the degree of integration of China's domestic market and investigates the determinants of inter … China's domestic marketfragmentation along provincial borders great, but it also has become more severe atleast between 1992 …
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