There are two kinds of traffic congestion at a toll plaza on a highway: congestion in the approach zone and congestion in the departure zone, which has received less attention. The performance improvement in the departure zone can directly reduce congestion in that area and indirectly increase...

The implementation of large-scale projects including road infrastructures is often seen as the driver of socio-economic growth and development of countries. Interestingly, in the Global South, road infrastructures trigger various socio-spatial impacts, including fragmentations and changes in...

As the main spatial carrier of land urbanization, the Development Zone (DZ) is the pilot and demonstration area for realizing the economization of intensive land usage. Land leasing is the key to guiding the efficient allocation of DZ land resources. Based on the DZ land leasing systems,...

Based on a novel dataset constructed with the supplier-consumer paired sample, this paper uses a difference-in-differences approach to evaluate the impact of national high-tech zones on firm performance. We find that the supplier's sales growth rate increased by about 61.35% after the approval...

For a century, zoning has been the quintessential form of land use regulation in the United States. But in Maine, at least 200 towns continue to regulate land use without dividing their territory into districts subject to differing regulation. I use qualitative and statistical methods to...

Special economic zones (SEZs) have been used by many developing countries as a policy tool to promote industrialization and economic transformation. The World Development Report 2020 also recognizes the possibility of using SEZs as a means of facilitating global value chain participation. As a...

Evaluating the effectiveness of place-based policies has always been a hot topic in urban and regional economics. In this paper, we investigated the spillover effects of place-based policies from the perspective of micro-firm productivity, based on the special period of China’s development...