This paper estimates the impact of industrial agglomeration on firm-level productivity in Chinese manufacturing sectors … productivity-boosting effect, but agglomeration of urban population (i.e. urbanization) has no such effects. Additionally, the …

find that along with Ricardian technological differences and Heckscher-Ohlin factor-endowment differences, productivity …, machinery, chemicals, and paper products will see lower output shares as a result of decreases in productivity … dominate in the short-run, and factor endowment differences and productivity-adjusted electricity capacity tend to have a …

firms mainly stems from high labour cost, while impact of inefficiency is quite small. Productivity accounts little for the …

phone industry in Shenzhen, China. In this industry, value chains are being driven by both the technology platforms and the …

Preferential Tariffs (CEPT) under AFTA and similar arrangements under the ASEAN-China FTA, a product must satisfy the conditions … the period 1990-2000, due to rising dependency on neighboring ASEAN countries and China. …

This paper examines and compares the location choice of Japanese and Taiwanese MNEs in China. Furthermore, we … investigate the relationship between location choice and firm characteristics, specifically firms' productivity. Due to Taiwan …'s linguistic and cultural advantages in China, it is expected that the location choice mechanics are different between Japanese and …

multifactor productivity in China's industrial sectors by further developing the genuine savings method of the World Bank. The …The rapid growth of China's economy has brought about huge losses of natural capital in the form of natural resource … sector-level natural capital loss was calculated using China's official input–output table and their extensions for tracing …

policy issue. This paper studies the spatial effect of FDI agglomeration on the regional productivity of domestic firms …