This paper uses both the cross-section and panel data approaches to study regional growth in China.

Being the world's largest developing economy, China's successful economic performance since 1978 has had a powerful impact on the global economy. Its open policy features with an evolutionary process, involving the gradual liberalisation of foreign exchange, international trade and foreign...

Climate regulations tend to target energy intensive sectors whose products are widely used in industrial production as intermediate inputs, such as electricity, and the carbon abatement may be partially offset by intermediate input-led leakage. This paper aims to examine the impact of...