China is a large developing economy and it has been deeply involved in globalization since its economic reform and opening-up. Simultaneously, China has seen a significant change in the spatial distribution of economic resources, especially capital and labor. In the recent 10 years, economists...

New economic geography focuses on the impact of falling transport costs on the spatial distribution of activities. However, it disregards the role of technological innovations, which are central to modern economic growth, as well as the role of migration costs, which are a strong impediment to...

This paper investigates the trends and determinants of geographic concentration and industrial specialization in the People's Republic of China (PRC) using interprovincial panel data for the period from 1999 to 2010. It shows that, after 2005, both geographic concentration and industrial...

We construct a new database of spatial relations between industrial firms and development zones using the Application Programming Interface addressing and document the development zones' spillover effect on firms' total factor productivity (TFP). Development zones significantly improve the TFP...

We construct a new database of spatial relations between industrial firms and development zones using the Application Programming Interface (API) addressing and document the development zones' spillover effect on firms' Total Factor Productivity (TFP). Development zones significantly improve the...