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...

This paper shows that the observed output of any market, placed within the confine of a quadratic map, can characterize the state of that market. Such an approach explains the process of market share’s growth and its pitfalls, the consequences of broken symmetry of scaling, as well as the...

In this paper, we provide a new methodology in constant-market-shares (CMS) analysis and the measurement of export competitiveness. The main issue in CMS analysis is the difficulty in reconciling the continuously changing nature of country and world exports with the available discrete time data...