This paper uses both the cross-section and panel data approaches to study regional growth in China.

Being the world's largest developing economy, China's successful economic performance since 1978 has had a powerful impact on the global economy. Its open policy features with an evolutionary process, involving the gradual liberalisation of foreign exchange, international trade and foreign...

Geroski and Walters (1995) conclude that changes in manufacturing output Granger caused changes in innovative activity and that the latter fluctuated pro-cyclically during the period 1948-83 in the UK. This note shows that their modelling method is inappropriate and results misleading....