The purpose of this study is to fill an existing gap in the literature by addressing the following research question: what are the major determinants of China's regional economic integration with the Greater Mekong Sub-regional countries (GMS), namely; Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and...

This paper studies the degree of integration of China's domestic market and investigates the determinants of inter-provincial trade barriers under the rubric endogenoustrade policy theory. I rely on industry-level trade flows extracted from provincial input-output tables to develop a model that...

Chapter 1 A Summary of Theoretical Studies on International Regional Economic Integration and China's Borderland Economic Development -- Chapter 2 The Process and Attributes of Regional Economic Integration between China and Neighboring Countries -- Chapter 3 The boundary effect in the process...