China urbanization is associated with both increases in per-capita income and greenhouse gas emissions. This paper uses … suggests that current regional economic development policies that bolster the growth of China's northeastern cities are likely … China's cities …

Naturally-occurring yellow sand outbreaks, which are produced by winds flowing to Korea from China and Mongolia, create …

prices of East Asian economies including China, Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan. We find significant and positive …

China, Japan, and South Korea, and estimate the economic burden of chronic conditions in five domains (cardiovascular … non-communicable diseases over the period 2010-2030 are $16 trillion for China (measured in real USD with the base year … 2010), $5.7 trillion for Japan, and $1.5 trillion for South Korea. Our results also highlight the limits of cost …

office has a greater percentage of mistakenly granted patents than those of Europe, the United States, Korea and China …

Japan, an isolated, backward country in the 1860s, industrialized rapidly to become a major industrial power by the … over a single generation. China now seems poised to follow a similar trajectory. All three cases highlight the importance …

factor costs, China's economic geography as it influences trade costs, as well as the degree of regional diversity in … China in the 19th century were relatively low …

This paper estimates the effect of access to transportation networks on regional economic outcomes in China over a …

convergence among the provinces of China during the period 1952-1993. We find that real income convergence of provinces in China … coastal and interior provinces, rather than increase in variance within each other. Therefore, it seems that China is now on a …

Using three years of data from the 47 prefectures of Japan, we estimate behavior of households who simultaneously make …