domestic technology diffusion. I identify four de facto research centers in China and investigate whether the effect of R …

This paper analyzes the impact of Research and Development (R&D) on the productivity of China's high technology … differences across three major regions in China, we use a novel semiparametric approach that allows us to model heterogeneities …

China’s policy-makers argued that WTO accession and the accompanying trade liberalization would have a beneficial … impact on the domestic economy. China’s import tariffs differed tremendously across industry in the earlier years, but …

How much of China’s recent economic performance can be attributed to market-oriented reforms introduced in the last two … Paper compares the integration of rice markets in China today and 270 years ago. In the 18th century, transport technology … pattern of interregional income in China is strongly linked to persistent geographic factors that were already apparent …

higher in the special economic zone aimed at attracting foreign capital to fasten the development of China’s own high tech …

This study investigates the existence of regional convergence of per capita outputs in China from 1952 … developed; this test is based on the p-value combination approach suggested by Fisher (1932). Next, the test is applied to China …’s provincial real per capita outputs to examine the regional convergence in China. To obtain the p-values of unit root tests for …