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Urbanization and economic development : a tale of two barriers
Bond, Eric W.; Riezman, Raymond Glenn; Wang, Ping - 2016
barriers played in China's growth and urbanization. We find that the primary drivers for real per capita GDP growth are …n this paper we determine the main driving forces underlying the structural transformation and urbanization process in … supplemented with quantitative analysis fitting the data from China, to explore the role that reductions in trade and migration …
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Banking and industrialization
Heblich, Stephan; Trew, Alex - 2015
We exploit employment data from 10,528 parishes across nineteenth century England and Wales and find that a one standard deviation increase in finance employment increases the annualized growth rate of secondary labour by 0.8 percentage points. An endogenous growth model with finance and...
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Skilled scalable services : the new urban bias in economic growth
Eckert, Fabian; Ganapati, Sharat; Walsh, Conor - 2020
Since 1980, economic growth in the U.S. has been fastest in its largest cities. We show that a group of skill- and information-intensive service industries are responsible for all of this new urban bias in recent growth. We then propose a simple explanation centered around the interaction of...
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Historical legacies and urbanization : evidence from Chinese concessions
Jin, Gan; Schulze, Günther G. - 2024
Can colonialism affect today’s urban outcomes? This paper examines the long-run impact of Concessions - foreign-run enclaves established in the late nineteenth century inside Chinese cities by European settlers for residence and investment purposes. They soon became the new economic hubs of...
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Migrants and firms : evidence from China
Imbert, Clement; Seror, Marlon; Zhang, Yifan; … - 2018
This paper estimates the causal effect of rural-urban migration on urban production in China. We use longitudinal data …
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Technology transfer and early industrial development : evidence from the Sino-Soviet Alliance
Giorcelli, Michela; Li, Bo - 2022
1950 and 1957, the Soviet Union supported the "156 Projects" in China for building technologically advanced industrial …
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CO2 emissions and GDP : evidence from China
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Claudio-Quiroga, Gloria; … - 2019
This paper examines the relationship between the logarithms of CO2 emissions and real GDP in China by applying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119768
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Integrating India with Asian production networks : prospects and challenges
Nag, Biswajit; Bhattacharyay, Biswanath; De, Debdeep - 2015
service networks will grow and contribute to the rapid growth in China, India, and Southeast Asian countries, especially from …
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Economic geography within and between European nations : the role of market potential and density across space and time
Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2009
In explaining the uneven spatial distribution of economic activity, urban economics and new economic geography (NEG) dominate recent research in economics. A main difference between these two approaches is that NEG stresses the role of spatial linkages whereas urban economics does not do so. We...
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Urbanity
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M. - 2013
I define a composite amenity that provides aesthetic and consumption value to local residents: Urbanity. A novel data set of geo-tagged photos shared in internet communities serves as a proxy for urbanity. From the spatial pattern of house prices and photos I identify the value of urbanity in...
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