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Desmet, Klaus; Parro, Fernando - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

We examine the recent literature that studies the spatial distribution of economic activity across both space and time. We discuss the methodological advances enabling the incorporation of dynamic forces of economic activity--such as endogenous innovation, forward-looking location choices,...

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A Geospatial Approach to Measuring Economic Activity

Yang, Anton; Ai, Jianwei; Arkolakis, Costas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

We introduce a new methodology to detect and measure economic activity using geospatial data and apply it to steel production, a major industrial pollution source worldwide. Combining plant output data with geospatial data, such as ambient air pollutants, nighttime lights, and temperature, we...

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A geospatial approach to measuring economic activity

Ai, Jianwei; Arkolakis, Costas; Yang, Anton - 2025

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State versus Market : China's Infrastructure Investment

Qian, Shuoge; Ru, Hong; Xiong, Wei - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

Amid rising global interest in state interventions, this paper examines how China's infrastructure investments--a key macroeconomic policy tool--affect firm productivity. We focus on a policy that encourages regional governments to improve market conditions for private enterprises. Our analysis...

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On the Road : Access to Transportation Infrastructure and Economic Growth in China

Banerjee, Abhijit - 2012

This paper estimates the effect of access to transportation networks on regional economic outcomes in China over a twenty-period of rapid income growth. It addresses the problem of the endogenous placement of networks by exploiting the fact that these networks tend to connect historical cities....

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Does the Structure of Banking Markets Affect Economic Growth? Evidence from U.S. State Banking Markets

Mitchener, Kris James - 2010

This paper examines the relationship between the structure of banking markets and economic growth using a new dataset on manufacturing industry-level growth rates and banking market concentration for U.S. states during 1899-1929--a period when the manufacturing sector was expanding rapidly and...

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The Greenness of China : Household Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Urban Development

Zheng, Siqi - 2009

China urbanization is associated with both increases in per-capita income and greenhouse gas emissions. This paper uses micro data to rank 74 major Chinese cities with respect to their household carbon footprint. We find that the "greenest" cities based on this criterion are Huaian and Suqian...

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Chinese Rural Industrial Productivity and Urban Spillovers

Peng, Yusheng - 1997

Chinese rural industry has grown three times faster than national GDP, surpassing agriculture in size in 1987, and now nearing half of the total Chinese economy. We use a rich, new county-level data set to explore this dramatic growth. We find that a Cobb-Douglas production function explains...

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Trends in Regional Inequality in China

Jian, Tianlun - 1996

Several recent studies have examined the tendency of regions within a nation to exhibit long-term convergence in per … capita income levels. Barro and Sala-i-Martin (1991, 1992, 1995) have found a tendency towards convergence among the U … convergence among the provinces of China during the period 1952-1993. We find that real income convergence of provinces in China …

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Place-Based Policies for Development

Duranton, Gilles - 2018

Many development policies, such as placement of infrastructure or local economic development schemes, are "place-based." Such policies are generally intended to stimulate private sector investment and economic growth in the treated place, and as such they are difficult to appraise and evaluate....

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