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 article investigates whether China's foreign aid is particularly prone to political capture by political leaders … results show that current political leaders' birth regions receive substantially larger financial flows from China than other …

The literature on China indicates that the concentration of economic activities in China is less than in other … workers are not able to take full advantage of the benefits from agglomeration economies. China is changing rapidly, however … institutional limitations in China against further agglomeration weaken, and that the consensus in the literature that 'Chinese …