This dissertation examines the relationship between public infrastructure and regionaleconomic productivity in China. Based on a panel data set for 29 regions of China for a17-year period of 1987-2003, a three-step nonstationary panel analytical procedure isconducted to investigate whether...

An exploratory modeling approach to investigate spatial variation in the levels of regional endogenous employment growth and decline over the decade 1991–2001 is developed and applied to an analysis of the non–metropolitan regions (Local Government Areas) in each of the five mainland States...