China’s Hukou system poses severe restrictions on labor mobility. This paper assesses the consequences of relaxing … these restrictions for China’s internal economic geography. We base our analysis on a new economic geography model. First …, we obtain estimates of the important model parameters on the basis of information on 264 of China’s prefecture cities …

This paper analyses the geography of innovation in China and India. Using a tailor-made panel database for regions in … between the provinces and states within both countries are quite different. In China, the concentration of innovation is …. Innovative areas in China, rather than generate knowledge spillovers, seem to produce strong backwash effects. In India, by …

We estimate the effect on economic development of China's industrial policy, in particular, the establishment of …

The rise of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in world trade has brought both benefits and anxiety to other … estimation, Japan; the United States; Hong Kong, China; and the European Union are the major sources of foreign content in the …

since 1995. The paper draws on a variety of data sources but most heavily on the recent World Input-Output Database. China …