and productivity of firms in designated areas. We use unique panel data from China with information on manufacturing firms …’ production factors, productivity and location, and we exploit temporal and spatial variation in place-based interventions due to … issues that (i) science parks are located in favourable locations and that (ii) high-productivity firms sort themselves in …

This article explores the dynamics of market selection by investigating of the relationships linking productivity …, profitability, investment and growth, based on China's manufacturing firm-level dataset over the period 1998-2007. First, we find … that productivity variations, rather than relative levels, are the dominant productivity-related determinant of firm growth …