China's rapid economic growth has been fueled by industrialization and urbanization. Given its export focus, this … quality of life in China's cities. We focus on the interaction between firms, local governments and the central government … that together determine the new economic geography of industry and pollution within China …

take this classic question to the data by measuring the spillover e¤ects of China's productivity growth. Our framework … the spillover e¤ects of China's productivity growth are small causing the real incomes of China's trading partners to …

This paper studies the trade of China in the past 150 years, starting from the first opening of China after the Opium … War. The main purpose of the paper is to identify what is (and was) China's 'normal' level of foreign trade, and how these … levels changed under different trade regimes, from 1840 to the present. We present new evidence on China's foreign trade …

/capita, shares in world trade and market capitalization attributable both jointly and single to China, India, and Brazil (the three … time. In contrast the North‐China gap falls from 57.2 to 13.1 between 1990 and 2009, and India from 70.4 to 38.1 using … market exchange rates and from 23.4 to 5.5 for China and from 20.7 to 11.4 for India using PPP rates. We calculate the …

of US-China bilateral retaliation on trade flows and welfare. One is a conventional Armington trade model with five … regions, the US, China, EU, Japan and Rest of the World, and calibrated to a global 2009 micro consistent data set. The other … is a modified version of this model with monetary non neutrals and including China's trade surplus as an endogenous …

other pacific countries are included, China is notable for its exclusion from the process thus far. This paper uses … numerical simulation methods to assess the potential effects of a TPP agreement on China and the other participating countries …. Simulation results reveal that China will be hurt by TPP initiatives, but the negative effects are relatively small given the …

This paper is the first chapter in the Oxford Companion to the Economics of China (Oxford University Press, forthcoming …). Rather than trying to summarize other contributors' views, we provide our own perspectives on the Economics of China …--the past experience and the future prospects. Our reading of China's economic development over the past 35 years raises two …