This paper studies the evolution of city population and the land use policy in China. We show that the population distribution of cities in China tends to cluster around 2-8 million people, and the distribution has become more clustered in recent years. Using a general equilibrium urban model,...

This paper investigates the estimation and inference of spatial panel data models in which the regression coefficient vector is a trending function. We use time differences to eliminate the individual effects and employ GMM estimations for regression coefficients with both linear and quadratic...

In this paper, we introduce a social interaction econometric model with an extreme order statistic to model peer effects. We show that the model is a well‐defined system of equations and that it is a static game with complete information. The social interaction model can include exogenous...