-height restrictions, and it applies the method to an extraordinary dataset of land-lease transactions from China. Our theory shows that …

China's economic reforms over the past decades have given rise to the development of a rudimentary urban land market … structured at a detailed spatial level, such as parcels. There is no parcel-based information system in China, but the country … integrated information systems, or a so-called ‘‘local spatial data infrastructure''. This paper reviews China's population …

China's urbanization is significant world-wide. This process is characterized by under-urbanization of population and … empirically tested. This study fills this gap by analyzing panel data from 1999-2009 for all 286 prefecture-level cities in China …. The findings reveal that land financing, using different measures, significantly contributed to land urbanization in China …

urban China. In particular, we first extend the theoretical framework of Saiz (2010), then investigate the marginal effect …