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...

This article studies the synergy effect of entrepreneurship on China's industrial clusters. We propose an extension to Duranton and Overman's (2005) method which enables us to delimit industrial clusters in space. The empirical model is identified with historical measures of local entrepreneur...

We study the impact of China's land use regulation on firm productivity. Our theoretical analysis shows that a restriction on the supply of industrial land will reduce the number of operating firms and harm their average productivity. We employ a natural experiment based on geography and find...

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...