It is generally agreed that privatization of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) improves economic efficiency, but it is also widely feared that it exacerbates unemployment especially in transition and development economies. This paper proposes a theoretical model of the macroeconomic relationships...

This study investigates the major role played by the high land price in the current massive intra-country industrial relocation from coastal to inland areas in China. It develops a conceptual model to explore the causalities between urban expansion, land price and coastal-to-inland business...

Many studies of regional disparity in China have focused on the preferential policies received by the coastal provinces. We decomposed the location dummies in provincial growth regressions to obtain estimates of the effects of geography and policy on provincial growth rates in 1996-99. Their...