China’s economic pathway subsequent to 1978 is the greatest and most spectacular catching-up process ever succeded in …. Yet, nowhere else has its impact been more ample than in Asia, where China has become the largest regional economy …, overriding Japan (2010), a highly developed country, although China itself is still an emerging economy. The channels which these …

system to be challenged – and China and India as emerging competitors for international technological leadership. The … 'emerging' (China and India) and 'mature' (EU and US) innovation systems. …

China’s Hukou system poses severe restrictions on labor mobility. This paper assesses the possible consequences of … relaxing these restrictions for China’s internal economic geography. We base our analysis on a new economic geography (NEG …) model. First, we estimate the important model parameters using data on 264 of China’s prefecture cities. Second, we use …

system to be challenged – and China and India as emerging competitors for international technological leadership. The … ‘emerging’ (China and India) and ‘mature’ (EU and US) innovation systems. …

The economic prosperity associated with the Coastal regions of China has not 'trickled' down to the Western and Central … regions sufficiently enough to eliminate the disparities in income between the regions. Indeed, the disparities between China … mistaken belief that investment in the railways and development of heavy industry in the interior parts of China would bring …

&D) collaboration of Japanese multinational enterprises (MNEs) in China. We analyze location strategies of overseas R&D activities on a … on location choices in China. Using conditional logit estimation from U.S. patent data, we find that Japanese MNEs are in …