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Pollution and road infrastructure in cities of the People's Republic of China
Luo, Zhi; Wan, Guanghua; Wang, Chen; Zhang, Xun - 2017
Urban road infrastructure is crucial in determining air pollution. Yet, little is known about the roles played by road … width vs. road length. This paper attempts to fill this gap by estimating the effects of road infrastructure on 10-micron … the road density index, defined as the ratio of surface area of roads to city territory size, is negatively correlated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011635173
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Connective financing Chinese infrastructure projects and the diffusion of economic activity in developing countries
Bluhm, Richard; Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Parks, Bradley - 2020
This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial concentration of economic activity. Leveraging a new global dataset of geo-located Chinese government-financed projects over the period from 2000 to 2014 together with measures of spatial inequality based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012226698
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Chinese infrastructure projects and the diffusion of economic activity in developing countries
Bluhm, Richard; Drehery, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Parks, … - 2020
This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial concentration of economic activity. Leveraging a new global dataset of geo-located Chinese government-financed projects over the period from 2000 to 2014 together with measures of spatial inequality based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012230114
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The Impact of Logistics Infrastructure Development in China on the Promotion of Sino-Korea Trade : The Case of Inland Port under the Belt and Road Initiative
Wang, Chao - 2020
Purpose – This study investigates the impact of inland port development in China on the promotion of bilateral trade flows between China and South Korea. Design/methodology – The probable association between the establishment of inland ports and SinoKorea trade was estimated using gravity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833134
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Estimating causal effects of BRI infrastructure projects based on the synthetic control method
Kleimann, Martin; Li, Yuan; Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - 2020
local road transport. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012289890
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Urban pollution and road infrastructure : a case study of China
Luo, Zhi; Wan, Guanghua; Wang, Chen; Zhang, Xun - In: China economic review : an international journal 49 (2018), pp. 171-183
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How Much Will the Belt and Road Initiative Reduce Trade Costs?
de Soyres, Francois; Mulabdic, Alen; Murray, Siobhan; … - 2020
This paper studies the impact of transport infrastructure projects of the Belt and Road Initiative on shipment times … and trade costs. Based on a new data on completed and planned Belt and Road transport projects, Geographic Information … System analysis is used to estimate shipment times before and after the Belt and Road Initiative. Two sets of data are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014048848
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High-speed railway, market access, and economic growth
Wei Zou; Chen, Liangheng; Xiong, Junke - 2018
This paper establishes a general equilibrium trade model and adopts the "market access" approach to measure the impact of the high-speed railway (HSR) network on the economic growth of 110 of the main prefecture-level cities of the People's Republic of China, for which we manually collect the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011879411
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The implications of the New Silk Road Railways on local development
Fang, Ling; Kleimann, Martin; Li, Yuan; Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - In: Journal of Asian economics 75 (2021), pp. 1-15
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012803764
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The implications of the new Silk Road railways on local development
Fang, Ling; Kleimann, Martin; Li, Yuan; Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - 2019
transport volumes. The recent Belt and Road Initiative provides an experiment that can be evaluated using matching econometrics …-run economic growth. However, it spurs employment and road freight by stimulating intermodal transport. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012118650