This paper uses an extended gravity model to shed light on the impact of the free trade area agreement between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the People's Republic of China (PRC) on the members' trade flows and trade patterns. New determinants that capture the rising...

Market reforms can improve a country’s aggregate productivity growth by reallocating resources from the less to more productive firms. However, not all market reforms end up generating the intended resource reallocation effect. This paper investigates how regional monopolies have limited the...

Under the background of Chinese market segmentation, whether government-led administrative division adjustments can promote regional economic integration is a practical issue. Taking interregional firms’ stock price comovement as a micro measurement of regional integration, this paper...

Fleshy fruit evolved independently multiple times during flowering plant (angiosperm) history yet many utilize the hormone ethylene to regulate ripening. The fruitENCODE project highlights three evolutionary origins of ripening regulatory circuits. Eudicots that experienced recent whole-genome...