Though the determinants of regional economic growth in China have been widely discussed in previous studies, the effects of knowledge capital and spillover have been less systematically investigated. This paper assesses how and to what extent knowledge capital and technology spillover contribute...

This article aims to test Sutton's 'lower bounds' approach on the analysis of market concentration in a small open economy like Taiwan. Exporting, which is important to a small open economy, is also considered in order to investigate the role of foreign competition on the market structure. Using...