Examining China’s manufacturing and transportation, we analyze how rapid expressway-network expansion fostered market …. Market access raised local manufacturing GDP; impacts were evident at the extensive margin and likely at the intensive margin …

Examining China’s manufacturing and transportation, we analyze how rapid expressway-network expansion fostered market …. Market access raised local manufacturing GDP; impacts were evident at the extensive margin and likely at the intensive margin …

-digit manufacturing industries in 231 China's cities for the period 1998-2005, we find that specialization promotes city-industry growth …

. Using a World Bank survey of 1,566 manufacturing enterprises in 18 Chinese cities, we investigated whether property rights …

constraints in shaping the innovation-related activities of Chinese firms between 2005 and 2007, in a context of quickly … this contradictive finding. The negative effect of productivity only exists among the non-exporters or mainland-owned firms … in China; firms that are exporting or owned by non-mainland-China capitals spend more on R&D and develop more new …

the Chinese manufacturing sector. We use a potential market size measure driven only by changes in the Chinese income ….1 percentage points. These findings are robust controlling for export behaviour of firms and supply side drivers of R&D. …

China's business environment. We find that Chinese manufacturing companies have relatively weak operational performance, and …

The Chinese firms face enormous survival risk in economic transition, with an average life expectancy of less than 4 …