This paper evaluates the role of economic geography in explaining regional wages in China. It investigates the extent … dynamics in China. We investigate three channels through which market access might influence wages beside direct transport …

We study how the 2004 reform of minimum wage rules in China has affected the survival, average wage, employment and … entry of more productive ones. Hence, in a fast-growing economy like China, there is a cleansing effect of labor market …

We study environmental regulation and its role for trade in China. Specifically, we assess the effectiveness of an … environmental policy in China that introduced stricter regulations on sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions in targeted cities. To identify …-owned firms in China. …

to exporters. Indeed, China's VAT system is not neutral, in particular because the exporters may not receive complete … performance in China. Our empirical analysis relies on export volume data at the HS6 product level over the 2003-12 period. To … understand the strong resistance of China's exports amid the global recession. …

Since the mid-2000s, the center of gravity of China's economic growth has shifted from the coastline to the inland and … convergence process which has been at work in manufacturing industry since the end of the 1990s and suggests that China is …

country (China) over the period 1997-2009. We confirm Hausmann, Hwang and Rodrik (2007)'s prediction that regions that … contributors to the global upgrading of China's exports. This finding suggests that the contribution of assembly trade and foreign …

This paper documents business cycles’ fluctuations in Chinese provinces. China’s de facto federalism, within a context …