Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off …

Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off …

We study house price convergence in panels of US states and metropolitan areas. Our analysis is centered on three … issues. First, we test whether the US house prices are converging over time using log t convergence test by Phillips and Sul … (2007). The test results suggest that there is little evidence of overall convergence. The second issue is to investigate …

China’s Hukou system poses severe restrictions on labor mobility. This paper assesses the consequences of relaxing … these restrictions for China’s internal economic geography. We base our analysis on a new economic geography model. First …, we obtain estimates of the important model parameters on the basis of information on 264 of China’s prefecture cities …

China’s Hukou system poses severe restrictions on labor mobility. This paper assesses the possible consequences of … relaxing these restrictions for China’s internal economic geography. We base our analysis on a new economic geography (NEG …) model. First, we estimate the important model parameters using data on 264 of China’s prefecture cities. Second, we use …

This paper estimates the impact of public investment on regional economic growth and convergence at the NUTS III level … capita on regional economic growth – but not on convergence – which also generates considerable spillover effects. However …

Most of the earlier studies on the convergence of income in China are based on provincial level data with a few papers … very little evidence of convergence to the mean income in various spatial groupings. Furthermore, the empirical analysis …