This paper aims to examine the role of the subway network, a typical transportation way within the urban area, on innovation and knowledge diffusion. Based on the difference-in-difference strategy and spatial analysis, we use 1332 newly opened stations in China from 2000 to 2013 as a...

By using the listed companies data, this paper investigates the impact of the ongoing mixed-ownership reform on the TFP of SOEs in China. Comparing with other SOEs, the TFP of pilot enterprises has been significantly improved through mixed-ownership reform. Further testing the changes in equity,...

This paper investigates the impact of urban form variation on residents’ happiness in Chinese cities. Using the matched data of the European Space Agency Global Land Cover dataset and the Chinese administrative map, we firstly measure the urban form index of Chinese cities between 2000 and...

This paper provides empirical evidence on the role of university spatial expansion in local innovation activities in the context of new campus construction in China. By treating the spatial expansion of the university as a quasi-experiment, we construct a unique geocoded dataset linking...