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 …

park site selection and document the willingness of China's provincial leaders to sacrifice economic development in order …

Over the last thirty years, China's major cities have experienced significant income and population growth. Much of …

Weak institutions ought to deter foreign direction investment (FDI), and mass media stories highlight China …'s institutional deficiencies, yet China is now one of the world's largest FDI destinations. This incongruity characterizes China …'s paradoxical growth. Cross-country regressions show that China's FDI inflow is not exceptionally large, given the quality of its …

China and India. US FDI is found to play a significant positive role in the exports of high-tech equipment from both rich … countries as well as China compared to other poor countries …

The quality of governance depends on public sector worker productivity. We use micro data from China to document that …

" regulations to maintain recent pollution progress. We document that China's cross-city Environmental Kuznets Curve shifts as a … function of a city's demand for clean air. We rank 144 cities in China based on their population's baseline sensitivity to air …

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 …