The issue of the possible adverse effects of a reduction in pollution on the economy is a very real one for China, given its public commitment to substantial cuts in CO2 emissions by 2020. An important part of this issue is the regional dimension ¨C the pollution reduction is likely to have...

type="main" xml:lang="es" <title type="main">Resumen</title> <p>China ha prometido grandes recortes en las emisiones de CO2 en 2020, lo que es probable que tenga efectos diferentes en las distintas regiones. Se sabe poco acerca de los efectos regionales de la reducción de la contaminación. Contribuimos aquí a cerrar esta...</p>

Fiscal decentralisation has played a significant role in the development of China’s economy over the past three decades. Yet there has been only limited analysis of the way in which decentralisation might affect variables such as welfare, output and income at the aggregate level and none at...

China has promised to cut CO2 emissions per unit of GDP 40-50% by 2020. It is almost certain that the reduction in emissions will have negative effects on the economy; moreover, the effects are likely to differ across regions, given that there is considerable heterogeneity among Chinese regions....

Inter-regional disparities in China have been an important concern for central-government policy-makers for most of the past 60years. One of the main policy instruments for redressing the imbalance between the prosperous coastal region and the poorer inland region has been the allocation of...

Groenewold N., Chen A. and Lee G. Inter-regional spillovers of policy shocks in China, Regional Studies. Inter-regional output spillovers from policy shocks are analysed in a three-region vector-autoregressive (VAR)-based model of China using investment as the policy variable. The...

The issue of the possible adverse effects of a reduction in pollution on the economy is a very real one for China, given its public commitment to substantial cuts in CO2 emissions by 2020. An important part of this issue is the regional dimension ¨C the pollution reduction is likely to have...

The extent and persistence of the inequality of regional output is an important policy issue in China and its sources have been the subject of considerable empirical research. Yet we have relatively little empirical knowledge of the effects on the regional distribution of output of shocks to...